Geesh.....if you torture the data enough and long enough, you’ll eventually get a confession saying whatever you want it to say. Then, all that’s needed is a megadose of optimism, showmanship, diversion and outright bullsh!t to make a headline out of it.
In other words, as an engineer I’ve spent many a time looking at the noise floor on a spectrum analyzer.
Unfiltered, unaveraged raw noise will bounce around a few decibels because that’s how it is....Gaussian. Stability only improves as the signal level rises higher above the noise.
It’s called signal-to-noise ratio (SNR); the higher the better and more stable. The article just says “in the middle of the pack” but never says what the real number is. I suspect with Christies numbers, he’s got a SNR of about 0dB, and that “middle of the pack” is the bottom half where they all are at about 1-2%.....
I hope he stays competitive (not that he is now) for a while. Let Chris “Don Koharski” Christie, Kasich, Bush, and Rubio all stay in and rip each other apart.