Dec 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM#26
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
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Dec 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM#27
DataDave said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
I do not accept the framing. The question has been narrowed to the version that has a tidy answer, and the part that was dropped is the part the OP actually asked about.
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Dec 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM#28
DataDave said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
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Shop Reference StandardsJan 2, 2026 at 5:37 AM#29
DataDave said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.
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Jan 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM#30
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Update, and it is the boring outcome: nothing was wrong. The measurement I was reading had moved less than its own week-to-week variation, which somebody said upthread and I did not believe.
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