LAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Either you have totally miss read what I said or I made a typo.
>I don't not say Sony portable MD players. As a matter of fact I
>specifically stated that I had not heard of much trouble with
>Sony portable MD units.
You must have made a big typo then; here's a quote from your message:
On 7/30/99, LAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sony has been a mixed bag. I really haven't seem to many
>problems with the R55. But Sony products other than the R55 have
>been know to be nothing but trouble. I own the original Sony
>portable MD recorder. (MZ-1). I had to return it twice during
>the warranty period.
In this message you state that although you haven't seen problems with
the R55, Sony products other than the R55 have "been know (sic) to be
nothing but trouble" and then support that statement with an anecdote
about how you had to return the MZ-1 twice in the first year.
It doesn't appear that I totally misread what you said ;-)
>I was speaking about the general reliability of Sony products.
As the above quote from you shows, you were specifically speaking about
the reliability of Sony portable minidisc units.
>I don't understand your statements about Consumer Reports. That is just your
>opinion. And what are you basing it on?
I am basing it on my background in statistics. From my understanding of
the methodology of Consumer Reports' reliability surveys, these surveys
tend to overrepresent those who are very happy and those who are very
unhappy. A model that has made a group of people unhappy can get a
disproportionately higher number of negative reviews, and can thus appear
to have much worse reliability than it actually exhibits in reality. And
vice versa (on the positive side). From that logic, it also follows that
the more popular a brand is, the more "very happy" and "very unhappy"
people there are going to be, and thus, the greater chance that the
results of the survey does not represent reality.
Consumer Report's _own_ reliability reports (where they actually
objectively test a product over a period of time and then report back
their results) are something I usually put some faith in; but I take
their consumer-reported reliability surveys with a grain of salt.
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