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Subject: [OM] Re: The Shock of Influence
From: "Sandy Harris" <sandyinchina@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:09:03 +0800
Steve Dropkin <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
> > However, in the "more repair prone" category we find only Vivitar for
> > point-and-shoots and in the "most repair prone" category we find only
> > Olympus for SLRs.  ....

> Consumer Reports has major issues with their "reliability" ratings.
> Statistically speaking, they're a nightmare: a very small
> self-nominated sample of subscribers working without agreed-upon
> definitions for terms like "problem" or "service". I would not read
> much into the numbers at all. It's bad science. The fact that CR
> does so much of it does not make it any better.

I gave up on them a few years back when they rated Corvettes
as more rust-prone than average. Something is definitely wrong
with your methods when a fiberglass-bodied car gets rusty.

-- 
Sandy Harris
Quanzhou, Fujian, China

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