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35mm lens poll.

Started Aug 28, 2015 | Polls thread
OP Great Bustard Forum Pro • Posts: 45,641
Re: Denial?

Abu Mahendra wrote:

Great Bustard wrote:

Abu Mahendra wrote:

Great Bustard wrote:

Abu Mahendra wrote:

Looks like the Sigma Art is not enjoying great enthusiasm in this poll, despite its admitedly great optics. Is it an unfair case of a bum rap? Doubt it. It's rather a case of a fair rap given its AF ills. One still largely gets what one pays for. Nevertheless many here remain in denial.

So, my love of the 35 / 1.4A is a matter of denial? I'd have thought otherwise, but...

In the aggregate, buster, in the aggregate. You avoid the issue by focusing on your individual data point.

I don't avoid the issue at all. I just don't put much stock in user opinions, even the aggregate. Now, if LensRentals, for example, were to say the AF of the 35 / 1.4A was as horrid as you make it out to be with their tests of multiple units, I'd concede I just got lucky.

That's odd because you put great stock great in your own, singular opinion over aggregate numbers.

Makes sense, though, doesn't it? That my opinion of my 35 / 1.4A on my 6D would matter more to me than others' opinions about other 35 / 1.4As on other cameras?

Social psychology has well established the existence of this cognitive bias of discounting aggregate, anonimous numbers in the face of one personal anecdote.

As a high school history teacher of mine once said, "The masses are asses."  Come join us in Off Topic if you have any doubts, whatsoever, about the veracity of that statement.

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