[Electro]

NEC also make standard monitors, I really don't think they'd give a crap which one you buy. It isn't a study of NEC performance versus Acer or anything, it's just Standard Vs Widescreen and they make both in the same factories so I don't see the bonus.

Perhaps they make more profit on a widescreen than a standard, but if widescreen sales were actually boosted then market competivity would wipe anything like that out. So I really see no possible benefit from biasing the results.

[jcl]

One benefit of a study showing that one monitor configuration is better than another is that it encourages people with the worse configuration to buy new monitors.

Another benefit is an article on the CIO website featuring an illustration of an NEC monitor as an example of widescreen monitors.

...Which is not necessarily a reason to bias results in one direction or another, but it is a reason to emphasize the results enough to be statistically significant and hence reportable.