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RE: That was Salvatore's point, about the Recommended Components.(nt)

All Arthur Salvatore revealed in his criticism of Stereophile's "Recommended
Components" is that he doesn't understand statistics. He assumes that the
products chosen for review followed a Gaussian distribution (bell curve)
centered on a mean level of performance.

As I have repeatedly explained in both the magazine and on this forum,
this is not correct: our selection process strongly favors better-sounding
components, much like New York City's rating of restaurant public health
safety is dominated by A-rated establishments. (See the graph in the linked
story below.)

John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile


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