"I think that Boris, in his own interests, and he's fully entitled to see it in his own interests, wants to leave a mark of reliability and dependability and trust and keeping faith with London.
And for a business targeting an older generation of customer, the consumer often prefers to spend their money with an established franchised brand, seeing it as a mark of reliability and quality.
Volkswagen's quality control slipped for a few years, particularly for Golfs made in Mexico, but Consumer Reports has given it higher marks for reliability of late.
But analysts give the latest generation of robotic mowers good marks for reliability, and electric mowers generally require none of the annual maintenance faced by owners of gas-powered mowers.
The mark of a professional is reliability; the talented amateur delivers wonders as happy accidents but lacks the technique to be malleable or, for that matter, predictable.
By Richard Brody January 14 , 2015The mark of a professional is reliability; the talented amateur delivers wonders as happy accidents but lacks the technique to be malleable or, for that matter, predictable.
Obviously, on the Windows side, there's a much greater variety of manufacturers and of quality levels, while Apple makes all Macs, and receives generally high marks in well-known surveys of reliability.
For all four courses the comparative judgment method showed higher levels of reliability than analytical marking, but the comparative judgement scores and rankings were typically moderately to highly correlated with the scores from traditional analytical marking (Newhouse, 2011).
For the social psychologist Aleks Krotoski, writing in her new book Untangling the Web, "it may be that our digital shadows will become our marks of trust and reliability; to have none will be a sign that we have something we're ashamed of, something to hide".
Similar problems in marking reliability have been observed in higher education environments, although the degree of reliability varies dramatically, likely due to differences in instructor training, assessment type, grading system, and specific topic assessed (Meadows and Billington, 2005, pp. 18 20).
Like Jeremy Gompertz, counsel for the Kelly family who preceded him, Mr Sumption criticised Gilligan's evidence and raised a question mark over the reliability of the reporter's notes on his personal organiser, two versions of which were found by computer experts.
