I just updated the list of the “most popular price comparisons” for the first time in four months. I’d update it more regularly, but it doesn’t change much. Not even this time, when there’s no overlap in the time periods covered between the old list and the new one. Of the five most common comparisons last time, four remain in… More →
Day: February 9, 2008
The numbers behind Consumer Reports’ reliability ratings
In Consumer Reports, a 3 percent problem rate can count as “much worse than average” at the system level (electrical, cooling, etc.). That’s the lowest problem rate for which they’ll assign a solid black dot, if it also happens to be 45 percent worse than the average. In the case of a 3 percent black dot, the average problem rate for the system would have to… More →