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Ok, you guys got me. I didn't think it's take this long.
I confess. The gig's up. I'm the one ...
About 15 years ago in another company far away, I brought
a product into a reputable lab to be tested. It "passed",
if I remember correctly, by -0.5 dB.
The confidence "acid test" back then was (and I'm not joking)
"if it can pass with the - worst case configuration - being the
monitor on it's side placed on top of the EUT with a topping
of cables tied in a bow-tie, then it should pass in any other
reasonable configuration."
Well, too many people (like me) screamed about these crazy
configurations. Now, you can't do that type of cable
manipulation/configuration anymore. So, the confidence test
had to change. And well it should. How that boss I had to
answer to back then thought that every single product would
be rock steady at -0.5 dB with no distribution of data was
and still is beyond me. We aren't talking about a single
car on the highway going the speed limit, we're talking
about a whole herd of cars on the highway.
The current calculation of error is fairly applied without
having to resort to tying everything up into a bow-tie.
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