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TARA Labs cable challenge!!

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Tim__x said:
Percentage is really just a ratio of the whole, 50% is a ratio of 2:1, 25% 4:1 etc.
So to say that there is a "1%" improvment in "smoothness" even with proper tests would require a reference point of 100%. What is 100% smoothness? Is there a definition?
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Not exactly. When you talk about a percentage of improvement to an existing state, you are making the assumption that your baseline state (i.e., before the fancy-Dan cable) represents 100%. So he doesn't have to define 100% smoothness in any absolute sense. All he has to do is define his baseline 100% smoothness as all the smoothness he had before he switched cables. It's 100% of what he had, not 100% of all there could ever be.

And a 50% *improvement* actually represents a ratio of 3:2 with respect to the preexisting state--not 2:1 or 1:2--because if you have a 50% improvement on 100%, that gives you 150%, and 150:100 = 3:2. Similarly, a 25% improvement represents a ratio of 5:4 in relation to the baseline state.

However, I don't actually believe in this 1% difference in this particular test, anyway....
 
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Richard Lindsey said:
Not exactly. When you talk about a percentage of improvement to an existing state, you are making the assumption that your baseline state (i.e., before the fancy-Dan cable) represents 100%. So he doesn't have to define 100% smoothness in any absolute sense. All he has to do is define his baseline 100% smoothness as all the smoothness he had before he switched cables. It's 100% of what he had, not 100% of all there could ever be.

And a 50% *improvement* actually represents a ratio of 3:2 with respect to the preexisting state--not 2:1 or 1:2--because if you have a 50% improvement on 100%, that gives you 150%, and 150:100 = 3:2. Similarly, a 25% improvement represents a ratio of 5:4 in relation to the baseline state.

However, I don't actually believe in this 1% difference in this particular test, anyway....
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I didn't say a 50% percent improvement was a 2:1 ratio, I said 50% is a 2:1 ratio referenced to 100%.

And as I said, for a measurable 1% increase in "smoothness" he would have to be able define "smoothness" and measure the original "smoothness". He does not have to quantify it, but he does have to define and measure in atleast a relative way.
 
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Richard Lindsey said:
Not exactly. When you talk about a percentage of improvement to an existing state, you are making the assumption that your baseline state (i.e., before the fancy-Dan cable) represents 100%. So he doesn't have to define 100% smoothness in any absolute sense. All he has to do is define his baseline 100% smoothness as all the smoothness he had before he switched cables. It's 100% of what he had, not 100% of all there could ever be.

And a 50% *improvement* actually represents a ratio of 3:2 with respect to the preexisting state--not 2:1 or 1:2--because if you have a 50% improvement on 100%, that gives you 150%, and 150:100 = 3:2. Similarly, a 25% improvement represents a ratio of 5:4 in relation to the baseline state.

However, I don't actually believe in this 1% difference in this particular test, anyway....
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As long as you keep that to yourself...

;)
 
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Munjibunga said:
By the way, PB, I find your avatar even more disturbing than mine. That thing really bugs me.


(Now tell me that's your son, or something.)
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Yup! It's my 6 year old #1. I've sent that pic to relatives who thought
I had to have done it on the computer somehow....until he shows them personally:eek: .
He's quite the young comic.:p
 
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