>I wonder if there isn't a way to fund your study. Does Skating Magazine still exist
At least as of June 2019, Skating Magazine is still the official magazine of the USFSA. I believe they sponsor or sponsored a question & answer from "Mr. Edge", so maybe they would be interested in this too.
ISI publishes a magazine called "Recreational Ice Skating"
PSA publishes Professional Skater, for U.S. coaches.
I assume many other country's skating organizations publish magazines too.
I'm not sure if the ISU publishes a magazine.
If HD sports could be assured you would always pick their blades on top, perhaps they would sponsor such a study, much like film producers sponsor film reviewers, etc. But I suspect such editorial oversight wouldn't please Bill.
There are a number of other ways to raise money through the Internet. I'm sure they are all something of a hassle.
More to the point, Bill, like a lot of skaters I have known who became very interested in blades, experimented with several blade styles, and concluded he likes what he is used to best. For whatever reasons, different people start and end with quite different blades as their first choice. It isn't clear that his conclusions apply to everyone. Not only do people get used to certain blades, but so do coaches. I think it is possible that conceivable teach skating styles (e.g., positions on the blade on which various moves are done) that work well with the blades the coaches use and advocate.
Furthermore, it is quite possible that the distance between important points on the blade, like what I call the sweet spot (where the main rocker curvature and the spin rocker intersect), and the drag pick, "should" optimally depend a lot on your size, anatomy, skating level, and strength - all of which differ from skater to skater.
So any such reviews, as for almost any sports equipment, sometimes apply best to the person doing the reviewing, and might apply imperfectly to other athletes.
It's kind of like cars. I've found, by non-scientific methods, that most people who recently bought a car love the particular model they bought, and think it was the best possible choice (perhaps within economic constraints), yet they disagree strongly on which car that is.