Upper panel: distribution of the differences of the distance modulus estimates, μ, by B00 and Binney et al. (2013), divided by their combined uncertainty for a RAVE-B00 overlap sample of 68 stars. With σ_Beers = 1.3 mag we find a spread of 1σ in the distribution with the median shifted by 0.6σ ≃ 0.9 mag. The gray curve shows a shifted normal distribution. The two red data points mark two stars which were also entering our high-velocity samples. Lower panel: direct comparison of the two distance estimates with 1 − σ error bars. The solid gray line represents equality, while the dashed-dotted line marks equality after reducing the B00 distances by a factor of 1.5.