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Subject: Re: Experiences with quality of LX200-optics
From: Robert Preston
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Mon Jun 19 00:29:29 1995

>to take two to three returns to the factory to get it right (this was my
>experience with two of Meade's scopes, and fortunately I live only 20

n=2 is a small n (of course, if they had been mine, 2 would be much larger than it actually is. ;-) )

>believe that Meade has made an intelligent managerial decision, which is
>contrary to received wisdom. Any thoughts?

I seriously doubt that the managerial decision you hypothesize was ever made, at least was not explicitly made. I think you need a company the size of IBM or GM in order to have enough management types so that you'll have a significant number of people three standard deviations out on the creep distribution, i.e., creepy enough to play such games and also affect company policy or practice without getting called on it by anyone in the rest of the distribution.

To imply that a large fraction of Meade scope buyers are armchair types who don't know what they're seeing strikes me as a mean-spirited supposition invented to support a personal negative opinion about Meade quality control and a wild and not very responsible speculation about Meade management policy.