This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
Two claims get bundled together under Spreadsheets and they need separating. The descriptive one — this is what was observed — is usually well supported. The causal one — this is why — usually is not.
Almost every disagreement in threads like this one dissolves once you say which of the two you are making.
Lounge-level thought to close on: the measure of this place is that being wrong in public here is cheap. That is a design decision and it took work.
Adding a null result on Spreadsheets. I looked, carefully, and found nothing, and null results deserve posting precisely because they never are.
Thank you for taking the time. That was more work than a reply usually is.
Humour: light, relevant humour is welcome. Cruel humour targeting individuals or groups is not.
A partial answer, offered because a partial answer beats none.
The strongest argument against my own position on Spreadsheets, stated as well as I can state it, since nobody else has yet.
Politics and public policy: healthcare policy that affects access to these compounds is relevant here. Partisan politics is not.
I would want a second opinion before relying on that.
This is the sort of exchange that makes the archive worth searching.
Adding a note of thanks rather than an opinion. I did not know most of that.
Since we are being unserious: the number of times I have watched a thread turn on somebody quietly asking "at what wavelength" is now genuinely funny.
I have kept the units in throughout, for the obvious reason.
Something I have wondered without ever asking: is there a good reason the vocabulary in this field is so inconsistent between suppliers? Half the disagreements here start as terminology.
Having read the whole Spreadsheets thread before replying: the question in the first post has not actually been answered yet, and three of us have answered a nearby one instead.
Marking my uncertainty on Spreadsheets explicitly. I am confident about the direction, much less confident about the size, and not confident at all that it generalises past the case in the first post.
Humour: light, relevant humour is welcome. Cruel humour targeting individuals or groups is not.
The evidence for this is thinner than the way I have phrased it suggests.
I have three months of notes on Spreadsheets and the honest summary is that the trend is real and the week-to-week numbers are noise. I nearly drew the opposite conclusion from the first fortnight.
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