At 08:54 AM 5/27/2005, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>
> > They said "The failure rate could be as high as 30%.". It "could" also be
> > as low as zero, perhaps.
>
>They also didn't say 30% of what... I'm always surprised how much
>discussion can happen about the actual value of a percentage without
>anybody knowing the base of that percentage.
>
>If I buy one part and it's defective, my failure rate of that part is 100%
>(at least when using the "popular" meaning of % -- keep in mind that we're
>not really talking about statistics here :).

Indeed, your sample size it statistically meaningless.


>Then the "could be as high as"... Employing statistics, for any finite
>selection with finite error rates you get a non-0 probability that there is
>a failure rate of 100%.

I think it's obvious that the high defect rate quoted was intended to 
deter black market purchasers.

Interesting opportunity for their competition though, to have a look 
at "raw" output and what Max's yield rates are, if they are truly 
untested parts, which seems doubtful.


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