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In lugnet.admin.database, John D. Forinash writes:
> In article <GA2rEJ.2u1@lugnet.com>,
> Sybrand Bonsma <sbonsma@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> > Thanks for this list Todd, it is really nice. Many shuttles in this list, but
> > what I found stranger was the difference between above sets 497 and 928. Both
> > refer to the same set, but there is some difference in rating. Does anybody
> > have a good explanation for this?
>
> It's probably similar to why the Toyota Corolla always got a higher rating
> than the Geo Prism, even though they were the same car built in the same
> factory-- people percieve "Toyotas" as better than "Geos".
>
> I suspect that in this case, it's people percieve "foreign" sets as being
> better than "domestic" sets, but that's making the assumption that Lugnet
> is more US-centric than it probably is. Another possibility is US users don't
> like the 928 as much as their counterparts in the rest of the world like
> their 497s...
Or more people don't know the set number, and said "I've got one of those"
to the first picture they saw...
James
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