How does this - “My null hypothesis was that there were no differences, and I did not reject the null hypothesis”
Answer this question - “Are these really AVX resistors?”
Seems to me lots of people adhere to this logic…
Perhaps you can read the “No, I simply didn’t see any differences” that preceded the explanation. And the answer you supplied is to the question “So that means the 35 suspect resistors are manufactured by AVX,” which is slightly different.
Yeah, but here’s the thing. The original post said “My job was to determine if these were really AVX resistors”
So, I assume the question from the supervisor was “Are these really AVX resistors?”
Which wasn’t answered.
In my opinion, this is why the supervisor was confused.
Of course. That’s how I found out he had pranked her. He wasn’t too happy with me for blowing his cover, either. Their friends were all in on it, apparently.
A long time ago, my artsy stoner sister and her artsy stoner friends had all rented a house together and attempted to make a Thanksgiving Dinner. She didn’t have baking soda for some recipe and put in baking powder because it would be at least half right, right?
And while putting unpopped popcorn inside the turkey thinking it would pop was an “interesting” idea, basically it just meant we had to clean the hard unpopped corn out of the turkey.
I went to a college with limited on-campus food options and it was located in a town with lots of inexpensive restaurants. So I went out to eat with friends pretty much every single night for 4 years. The “trying to decide where to go tonight” became such a chore we constructed a big game show style spinning wheel. And we spent LOTS of time together designing this wheel because each restaurant had a different sized slice - a nearby favorite with a large menu might have a huge space on the wheel, while a specialty place like the BBQ joint on the outskirts of town had a really small sliver. I think there were 20+ establishments with a spot on the wheel.
One of my roommates and best friends was a professor ( our college had young faculty that fraternized heavily with the students) and we put the wheel in an open vestibule outside her office where other students could borrow it.
We did have a 100% veto rule - if EVERYBODY hated what the wheel offered up, we would spin again. That actually didn’t happen much.
Exactly. And the fan blows at a constant speed. The only variable is time. Same for the AC; it doesn’t cool any more quickly by turning it down to 50.
I have an FSA account through my work. It reimburses me for certain medical expenses up to a limit. One year, I had about $50 left, and sent in a $10 copay receipt. Then shortly after, I sent in a $100 receipt for contact lenses.
I got a $10 check for the copay, then a $40 check for the contacts, with a note saying that it was only partially reimbursed because my account reached it’s limit.
The the fun started.
I got a call saying that the evidence for the $10 payment was insufficient, and I either needed to provide more evidence or write them a check for $10.
I pointed out that, since I had another expense that wasn’t paid in full by more than $10, let’s just void the copay and let me keep the $10, since if I paid back the $10, my account would be $10 under the limit, and you’d immediately just issue me another check for the contacts.
No. He was adamant that I send him a check for $10 so they could send me another, different check for $10.
And not because the system wouldn’t let him do what I said, because I was unable, despite numerous attempts, to convince him that this would happen.
Sorry, forgot that you have that Kind of heating System.
No, that’s terribly wasteful, and only for sub-Standard situations.
commonplace in rented apt.s in cities (= standarf Situation) is a central heating unit for the whole house (with 4-6 Levels, or 20, of apt.s). That means, a heating unit (oil or gas; modern ones Wood Chips or Wood pellets) heats water, which is lead through pipes into the Units in each room, like this Heizkörper – Wikipedia made from cast iron, painted White.
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If the house is older (back when People heated with Wood or coal ovens in each room), then it’s often converted to “central heating” for each apt. - one Boiler, and a Radiator for each room.
If the house was built in the last few decades as a single standalone Family house, to follow the new 3 Liters* law for private houses, they may have a central heating unit that does use air with a heat exchanger in the Basement.
Then he never had to do any testing at all. He should have known from the beginning that no test could conclusively prove where the resistors were made.
If we lose power and it comes back on, my wife will make a point of turning off all the unnecessary lights because we shouldn’t waste it else it might go off again. She also thinks I can make up for her being 10 minutes late getting into the car by driving faster- for a 20 mile trip.
I had a high school algebra teacher who honestly thought pi was exactly 22/7. I, a student, had to explain that pi is irrational and 22/7 is rational.
Yes. So he used the wrong test method to answer a question other than asked (Asked: who made them? Answered: they are qualitativly the same), and I still don’t understand quite the reason why.
If the Manager Needs to know the answer to Quality, then the Manager asked the wrong question. If the Manager (for liability reasons maybe) asked the right question about who made them, then the Poster wasted time with the wrong tests instead of calling the Manufacturer directly.
If liability is important, buy directly from the manufacturer, and talk to them about suspicious markings.
If Quality is enough guarantee, then clear things up with the Manager first. (If the first Batch was a test case, and in the future a few thousands will be ordered from the non-direct-source-with-suspicious-markings because that saves a ton of Dollars compared to buying directly from manufacturer, the Manager Needs to make sure that Company policy and liability allows it.
Or did the rules Change in the meantime: Manager thought “if Quality is the same, we can save Money” poster does tests proving Quality is the same, meanwhile Manager has gotten reprimand from higher-up that liability doesn’t allow any non-original parts, no matter how much saving or similar Quality, so by the time Poster got back and gave his answer, the question had changed.
That’s the only way I can make some sense out of this Scenario.
I hate to mention this, because it exposes me as an Excel macro/visual basic nerd, but I created an Excel spreadsheet at work that did this exact same thing, complete with a spinning wheel and a pop-up that named the winner. We called it the “Wheel of Luncheon”
I agree.
My system is a heat pump backed up by an electric auxiliary heating element. Depending on the difference between the room temperature and the set temperature, the system will run using the heat pump alone (energy efficient but slow) or the heat pump plus the auxiliary heat (fast, but extremely inefficient use of electrical power).
Well, if they rated differently to the original resistors, I would assume that it would be conclusive enough to Crafter Man that those were not AVX resistors. Though, I suppose, it could be argued that it could also possibly be just a bad batch of AVX resistors.
A test that can prove negativty (Quality is inferior, therefore we won’t use them regardless who really made them) but not positivity (they were definitly made by AVX because … we called them and they told us where to look for the Special holographic proof or whatever) is not a complete test.
I’m wondering now if there is an actual way to definitively prove the source of a resistor, then.
Sure–just measure the ratio of isotopes of various atoms in the resistor. Then pull up the handy map of the world showing where any given isotope ratio is found that also lists people who use the output of those mines. Luckily, the mine you are looking for is sourced to only one company, and that company uses only the output from that one mine. You’ll be done quicker than David Crusoe can put on sunglasses.
Isn’t that where “expert opinions” come into play?
“In my expert opinion, based on the tests I ran, these are AVX resistors”