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<blockquote data-quote="AtlBo" data-source="post: 812760" data-attributes="member: 32547">Again, was my intention to convey in the example that the MRI had discovered something that absolutely required surgery.&nbsp; YES, as I mentioned in the first post, a second opinion about painful and costly surgery might be in order.&nbsp; In this case, I think it&#039;s CRUCIAL to note that this is ONE short series of repeated tests.&nbsp; You are 100% correct here.&nbsp; This is a miniscule sample size which o/c renders the test to almost no statistical significance and renders the results statistically meaningless.&nbsp; YET<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite119" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />, why was my first desire to test all the a-vs against a W10 system running Bitdefender and then each of the other security products available?&nbsp; Meaningful solutions are many times at least discovered in a single instance of a situation where improvements or gains can be engineered.Benchmarking is kind of a brutal thing.&nbsp; So many little things affect performance and hence affect results.&nbsp; That the tester went so far as to test and retest is worthy of note.&nbsp; Even then, Bitdefender could slow the system at other times without the slowdown being noted during the test, etc.&nbsp; Tons of considerations in all of that, where only extreme testing in a lab could possibly bring any sort of firm answer.&nbsp; On a final note, though, if enough people ran benchmarks to test this, maybe something would come to light that MS could improve...just interesting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AtlBo, post: 812760, member: 32547"] Again, was my intention to convey in the example that the MRI had discovered something that absolutely required surgery. YES, as I mentioned in the first post, a second opinion about painful and costly surgery might be in order. In this case, I think it's CRUCIAL to note that this is ONE short series of repeated tests. You are 100% correct here. This is a miniscule sample size which o/c renders the test to almost no statistical significance and renders the results statistically meaningless. YET:rolleyes:, why was my first desire to test all the a-vs against a W10 system running Bitdefender and then each of the other security products available? Meaningful solutions are many times at least discovered in a single instance of a situation where improvements or gains can be engineered. Benchmarking is kind of a brutal thing. So many little things affect performance and hence affect results. That the tester went so far as to test and retest is worthy of note. Even then, Bitdefender could slow the system at other times without the slowdown being noted during the test, etc. Tons of considerations in all of that, where only extreme testing in a lab could possibly bring any sort of firm answer. On a final note, though, if enough people ran benchmarks to test this, maybe something would come to light that MS could improve...just interesting. [/QUOTE]

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