Yeah, until you look at the base of the ski and see a big SALOMON on it!
I'll bet the people - pros, ski instructors, magazine staffers, shop dudes - who do the Ski and Skiing tests are smart enough to figure it out.
They're certainly smarter than lizzibeth, that's for sure. . .
Sorry girlie, but scentific method means controlling a hell of a lot more than you can control on the mountain. If Ski and Skiing used scientific method, they'd use only one tester for everything, one run and one tuning guy. They don't. so quit insulting my intelligence and everyone else's here by claiming that those mags do. Covering skis w. duct tape does not a scientific test make.
It's called skiing, stupid.