A Quiet Day

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Tim Higgins

The process of pulling all the data together, cross checking it for consistency and errors and making sense of it all reminds me of why I don’t do "round-ups" more often. And certainly not comparisons of six products that require so much testing! But I hope the results are worth it.

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