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Article: Bogus batting average?(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Computer Shopper
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- February 1, 2004
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In the January "The Hard Edge" column (p. 136), Bill and Alice say New York Yankee Derek Jeter's .324 batting average means he gets a hit only one-third of the time at bat, so he doesn't do the job he's paid to do 68 percent of the time. They compare that to a PC, saying if it boots 33 times out of 1,000, we're in pretty good standing. Wouldn't that be equivalent to a .033 batting average, and a much more dismal average than Jeter's? No wonder we don't get paid $15.6 million a year!
Figure it this way: The average well-equipped PC sells for around $2,500. That's ...