In one of the sessions on Quality and Reliability, a student asked what does reliability mean? I didnot want to scare him by giving a conventional definition of Mean Time To Fail and empirical failure rates. I said
Glenn McGrath Bowl in a Cricket Test Match...
An exhibition of two extremes of reliability...One at the Bowlers end and the other extreme[failure] at the Batting end. A study of variation, accuracy, and precision is best done analysing McGrath's good length deliveries. I call him 'Six Sigma Pigeon'. The first Ashes Test match tells you why it is true.
5 comments:
the pigeon must be a machine in human skin
helllo
Hey that was neatly summarised I must say!!!!
and i thought he was just enjoying the game!!
I was bowled over by that delivery... what a comparison to teach reliability... ur students sure must be having a good time.
karthik
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