even at the risk of sounding ludicrously naive and shamelessly optimist (especially considering we've got stalwarts like paulclarke and funkyjunky to educate us on the raw data side), a rather inane and simplistic inference has dawned on me.
it seems if we trust rupnet (which is according to most statistics, about 0.5-0.9% of total 485 filed with the CIS), then NSC is beating VSC almost 2 to 1 as far as speed (of approval) goes. i haven't tried to get into the RFE vs. no-RFE scenarios, but if we just look at approvals from these two centers over the last two months (including an incomplete December), here are the snapshots (as of December 30th):
Service Center
Average of Jan-Apr 2002 cases on Rupnet
Approvals in November 2003 on Rupnet (% Approvals)
Approvals in December 2003 on Rupnet (% Approvals)
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VSC
291
70 (24)
74 (25)
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NSC
138
47 (34)
73 (53)
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So percentagewise (which is all that really matters), NSC is over twice VSC's success rates this month. Could it be that we're chasing down and stigmatizing the wrong guys and NSC is "statistically" the best Service Center of all? or are we skewed by some data that's so little (even when compared to VSC) that it doesn't make sense to talk about this?
it seems if we trust rupnet (which is according to most statistics, about 0.5-0.9% of total 485 filed with the CIS), then NSC is beating VSC almost 2 to 1 as far as speed (of approval) goes. i haven't tried to get into the RFE vs. no-RFE scenarios, but if we just look at approvals from these two centers over the last two months (including an incomplete December), here are the snapshots (as of December 30th):
Service Center
Average of Jan-Apr 2002 cases on Rupnet
Approvals in November 2003 on Rupnet (% Approvals)
Approvals in December 2003 on Rupnet (% Approvals)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
VSC
291
70 (24)
74 (25)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
NSC
138
47 (34)
73 (53)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
So percentagewise (which is all that really matters), NSC is over twice VSC's success rates this month. Could it be that we're chasing down and stigmatizing the wrong guys and NSC is "statistically" the best Service Center of all? or are we skewed by some data that's so little (even when compared to VSC) that it doesn't make sense to talk about this?
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