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mike.trainer_LA said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

I read this differently from mike.trainer_LA, on substance rather than tone. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.

amsterdam_pete said:

The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?

Closing the loop on my own question.

Coming back a few months on. It held. Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.