Alex answered it perfectly....
At 22:04 2005-06-12, Alex Zepeda wrote:
>On 6/12/05, lenra24@aol.com <lenra24@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Your statement is ridiculous. Consumers Union (of which I am a lifetime
> > member) spends millions of dollars on research.
>
>So if they spend a lot of money, it must be right? Puhleeze.
>
> > The conclusion about Falkens has been reached by at least 3 other sources.
>
>I stopped reading CR a while back. But it seems to me that the more
>you know about a subject, the more you realize that CR doesn't know
>what they're talking about. I think they talked about coffee roasing
>a while back, and boy were they full of it. Similarly way back when
>they reviewed cell phones, some of the comments they were making were
>so uninformed as to be laughable. They compared different phones on
>different networks, without taking into account the difference in
>coverage.
>
>CR and cars is an interesting mix. They put out, IMO, some valuable
>information (such as the roll over testing). OTOH they put out some
>amazing tripe (such as reliability statistics). By presenting such
>raw data, it's really meaningless. Further, the questionaires that
>they send out are abiguous enough to further discount any reports they
>get back. Some of it is really just basic statistics (complete lack
>of random sampling) and some of the problematic nature of their data
>is a bit more subtle (comparing identical cars with different badges).
>
>--
>alex
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