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Re:The coffeeshop fallacy by hessenwolf on Thursday October 20, 2011 @11:23AM (#3135244)
Having worked in Quality Control in a major multinational, and studied and lecture statistics, I have seen that significant decreases in quality are accepted in exchange for increased consistency.
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Re:The coffeeshop fallacy by gaius on Friday October 21, 2011 @07:09AM (#3139280)
Quality is the measure of how closely a finished product meets its design spec. McDonald's products are insanely high quality, despite not being very good - a Big Mac was never designed to be healthy and satisfying in the first place!

A relevant example of this is organizations who are CMM Level 5 certified.

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