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Re:There's something off about LED bulbs by vikingerik on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:51AM (#35373521)
10 years isn't a minimum threshold for every item. Any individual item could fail any time, and the overall distribution will have a shape somewhere between a bell curve and a long tail.

I don't know if there are any regulations around the 10-year claim, but if there are then I'd expect that it's either an average or something like a one-standard-deviation threshold, like 68% last past that but 32% don't.

"Guaranteed 10 years" doesn't actually say anything about expected lifetime at all, just that they'll do a warranty replacement if it fails sooner.

Re:There's something off about LED bulbs by Dylan16807 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @06:56PM (#35380008)
One standard deviation would mean that 16% fail early and 16% last extra long. If the distribution is normal.

Personally I'd want a durability guarantee to be more like two standard deviations, on top of replacement in case of early failure.