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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005, Larry wrote:
Practical Sailor mag just did a writeup and test on the smaller windlasses. The October issue will have tests on the mid-range windlasses. Does it say "This windlass sucks! Don't buy this awful product!", or does it say what boat magazines always say that every advertiser's, or potential advertiser's products are just wonderful and you can't live without them? "Practical Sailor" discloses how it designs and does the tests it performs and, when relevant, where and in what conditions it carries out the tests. If/when its testing is not rigorously scientific (as many in a variable marine environment cannot cost-effectively be), it also so says. And, at least as far as a reasonably inquisitive reader can tell (there is always at least a conjectural possibility of undue influence for any activity/publication), its publishers and editors are not influenced by what its advertisers or potential advertisers may complain because it doesn't take and there are not any evident plans that it ever will take and publish adverting. |
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