On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> 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.

I think that there is. The average level of services, manpower training 
and pay, causes average businesses to produce an average quality class 
of products.

Peter
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