Quote Originally Posted by NOLACOPUSMC View Post
the issue with these kinds of things is that not so much the level of quality, but the consistency of quality.
This comes up often, especially when the Chart is first posted in a new place. Many people will get upset and say "my XYZ brand carbine is flawless and I'd put it up against anything made by any other manufacturer!" It may very well be true, but we first need to define our terms (round count, usage, cleaning cycle, etc.) as well as understand that it is a sample size of one. It is entirely possible that a brand xyz carbine with very few blue boxes will run without issue and that a brand abc with more checkboxes will choke. What all those better materials, proper assembly processes, and testing procedures come down to is reducing the likelihood of a choke, or increasing the consistency of quality.

Sample size of one? Somewhat irrelevant as it may be an outlier. Sample size of 1,000? Now we're talkin' data that we can parse!