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Originally Posted by AdonisRotts Look at the difference in submissions for hips vs elbows. Only 1 in 8 even submitted elbows. Also according to the stats there are approximately only around 4,700 dogs who passed elbows. You know that MOST individuals who failed Cardiac and CERF exams would not submit the results, because they know before submitting the paperwork that they failed, so there are countless numbers of dogs that failed. There are only approximately 1500 dogs who passed Heart alone. |
But you can't make that a valid comparison either. OFA is not evaluating eye exams or cardiology reports. They are taking a passing exam (which you've already been told by a board cert'd specialist whether you passed or failed) and simply registering it. With hips and elbows, OFA *is* the evaluating authority.
As well the point could be made that general practitioners are better at evaluating hips than they are elbows, and so therefore fewer failing hips are submitted because they're caught early.