i think it was a fair question, I have purchased both and have used max for almost 10yrs, specifically for product and arch viz visualisation hence i I do know many features of max and its associated rendering engines, so satire aside you can forgive me for not knowing how good its hair & fur is....

PoserPro being  a $500 character application (1/6  cost of max) one would obviously  think that it does characters (inc hair) to a high level., considering the vast amount of features that MAX has compared to Poser , Poser seems expensive, hence therefore my thoughts were that what it (poser) does do, it probably does it well.

Mike