Russell McMahon wrote:

> (That sort of spec transcends manufacturing location. I note that the
> first box of them that I grabbed says "Made in Brazil". I have no idea
> how good the typical quality of Brazilian electronics components is but
> I have some confidence in the people who decided to get them made
> there). 

I don't think there is such a thing as "typical quality" of produced
anything for a country. There maybe could be an average and a standard
deviation (if there were a satisfactory scalar measure for quality), but
even if there were, in almost all cases the variety of different qualities
produced in any country makes a "typical" quality practically inexistent.

Gerhard

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