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I've seen the good, the biased and the BS around this sport for many
years now. It is my good fortune not to sell anything besides information
and so I share my relatively unbiased observations and other knowledge
here.
Bias
Everyone is biased to some degree. For example, as a free-flyer and
photographer, I like paramotors more if they have weight shift. As one who
likes to play around on the ground, landing, standing, prancing and such,
I like paramotors that are well balanced on the ground. Such biases
are easy to avoid since I know about them. Another easily avoided
bias is the profit motive—I make no money from
selling equipment.
The hardest bias is personalities. There are people whose obnoxious
behavior makes it hard to recommend anything they're involved with. That's
not fair, of course, and I try hard to look past it. The opposite is true
when it may be a good friend who's selling something that I'm not so fond
of. Gotta take the good with
the bad if you're gonna be credible. I'll try my darndest to be credible. |
