Re: Mercedes still may profit from Chrysler

In article
<8487b0c0-6eb8-4953-ae22-160c041a5032@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Lloyd
wrote:
> On Jan 14, 5:59 pm, tetraethylleadREMOVET...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Brent P)
> wrote:
>> In article
<729b38cb-1f0f-4a9b-8717-55bc6f645...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Lloyd
wrote:
>> > I pointed out CR is where you can read about reliability and you
>> > chided me for not reading SAE engineering journals instead.
>>
>> No, I stated it brought back memories of the great ABS threads where
you
>> insisted on getting your engineering from C&D and CR.
>>
>> >> It means CR's data cannot produce reliable results.
>> > It can for the purpose they're intended -- not as an absolute guide
>> > (5% of Caravans experience problems) but as a relative one (a larger
%
>> > of Caravans experience problems than do Odysseses).
>>
>> It's worse than reading reviews on amazon.com. At least amazon.com
allows
>> people to explain things, they write it out. CR well you get a bunch of
>> symbols.
> 
> Yeah, kind of like graphs in those journals, eh?  Gee, you actually
> have to read some text to know what the graph represents.  Maybe CR
> readers are smart enough to do that.  You?

Guess that went over your head. It's not I or anyone else can't read the 
key to see what the symbols mean, it's that CR has by confines of their 
survey and their data processing has removed the details. 

For instance, in reading the reviews of a company online or ebay or 
whatever I tend to hit that 'worst' button and read those. I can tell by 
what they wrote if they were the dumbass or the company was doing 
something wrong. Can't do that with CR. No way to tell if their result has

been skewed for a particular model by one or three dumb***** who never 
changed the oil. Can't tell with CR if the results are skewed by people 
who overly nit-picky for a particular vehicle. There's no way to tell 
between real fit and finish issues or people who thought the bottom the 
floor pans should be painted body color and polished. On amazon the guy 
concerned about polished floor pans is written off as nutty, on CR he 
impacts the result.