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Richard J Kinch wrote:
Edwin Pawlowski writes:

That tag though, does give me some idea that A is better than B.


Exactly: it gives you that idea. An untested, unproven idea that plausibly
could be the inverse of the truth.

The function of the tag is to sell refrigerators and provide cover for the
government. No doors, no contents, no ice. A schoolboy doing a science
fair project would come up with a better test.


Heat loss is heat loss -- all the other factors are simply changing the
amount of same by either the same amount where something can be
controlled well (as in a fixed weight of same items) or not so nearly
the same as in more difficult to control (or at least much more
expensive to develop test environments) of the door-opening that you
seem so hung up over.

Again, it doesn't make any difference. It will change the absolute
values, yes, but have very little bearing on the relatives...

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