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Old January 3rd 04, 12:53 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Robert Woolley Robert Woolley is offline
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Default Oyster Cards on buses - 50% failure rate?

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 18:09:35 +0000 (UTC), (Gordon
Joly) wrote:

In article ,
Colin wrote:

"Gordon Joly" wrote in message
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It is just me or are half of the Oyster Card readers on buses faulty?

Gordo

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No - it's just you. Maybe you are meeting the same bus again & again.

From my experience it's about 1 in 15.

Colin


In a sample space of 2 buses today (both 277) one working reader and
one "faulty" reader.

Gordo



2? Have you heard of the concept of statistical significance?


Rob.
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