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Rod Speed

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Rod Speed wrote
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Too_Many_Tools wrote

FYI...

In reference to the suggested times

My suggestion, when they fail and the cost of repair is more than it is worth,

That isnt viable, because they are worth so little
when hardly anyone repairs much anymore.

A VCR no, a washing machine yes.

Most dont repair waching machines anymore.

I doubt if that is true today.

More fool you.

A year or so ago maybe. In either case it is foolish economics.

Irrelevant.

And what its worth is irrelevant anyway. What matters is what
the replacement costs compared with what the repair costs.

Oh I would differ,

Your problem.

but maybe on this part our differences are more semantics than anything else.

Nope, nothing like it.

I am not going to repair a five dollar toy even if it would only cost two dollars
where I would be likely to repair a 500 dollar toy even if it cost 200 dollars.

Like I said, what matters is what the replacement costs, not what the dead one is worth repaired.

Of course with many items the new toy may well be an upgraded version with better
features, where a new washer is not likely to be any different than the old on.

Irrelevant to what was being discussed there.

Remember that an appliance that is close to the estimated life
for an appliance is much like mine. I have had cancer many
times in the last 45 yeras, but since I am now 60+ years old,
my expected life is now higher than the national average
because I have already avoided dying in those first 60 years.

No it isnt any higher than that of other 60+ year olds, significantly lower in fact.

Carefully re-read my message,

No point, it stays pig ignorant **** no matter how often its reread.

If you don't understand it,

And when I do understand it...

how can you suggest it is a pig?

Never said it was a pig.

hopefully you will understand why you were wrong.

No I'm not.

Sorry to hear that.

Your problem. You could always burst into tears or something.

Those who refuse to consider that they may be wrong
will never know that they are right, they will just believe it.

And those who realise that they arent wrong on a particular issue know they arent wrong on that issue.

And you dont get that effect with appliances anyway.

Once you understand what I wrote, I hope you will be
able to understand why it does apple to appliances.

No it doesnt.

An old appliance approaching the average life of that kind of
appliance is likely to live well past that average, it must in order
to keep the average because of all those that previously died.

Utterly mangled all over again. And that is irrelevant to the
chance of it failing anyway.

I would disagree.

Your problem.

I take it you don't have much experience in statistical analysis?

Guess which silly little prat has just got egg all over its silly little face, yet again.

The risk of an older appliance failing has absolutely NOTHING
to do with how long its lasted so far compared with the average.

Thats as silly as claiming that the risk of a particular coin
toss result varys with the result you have got so far. It doesnt.

Yea, you don't understand statistical analysis.

Never ever could bull**** its way out of a wet paper bag.

Anyone who knows anything about that can see that I do.