Archie Leach, you can say I'm trolling you, but the fact is, you didn't provide any kind of potentially useful info. until I questioned your claims here. Frankly, your claims without any kind of evidence behind them are clearly FUD statements. Furthermore, all the scientific analysis info. you've mentioned here is from someone else, making your claims hearsay. Your statistical conclusions are laughable at best. The fact that you're calling anyone a troll, given your way of presenting this info. and how you deal with someone who is questioning you, is absurd. If you want to make FUD claims, that's your prerogative, and it's my prerogative from someone with a science background to question them. If you can't handle that, that's your problem.
Dude, go do you own research. For all of his bluster, at least Mel went out an educated himself on the general history of the hobby. You don't know Jack. Most all of the things that I mentioned here have been mentioned and discussed, multiple times on these boards. I'm sorry that I didn't hand hold you through a cluster analysis of every Clerk poster ever made... feel free to do one yourself.
Your definition of what is and what is not relevant information is utterly laughable. What we are actually talking about, instead of statistics, is confidence - and estimated confidence at that.
When you become grand ruler of the world, then we will have to give a shit about your incredibly and universally uniformed opinion...
Seriously, get lost, you are only unnecessarily muddying the topic with your spewed idiocy of ludicrous expectation presented under a quise of 'science'.
BTW, unless you have a PhD in statistics, then I am supremely confident that I have more experience in the field than you...
Now, go FUD yourself...