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c/hplc·submitted 4 months ago by u/kofi_ferreira

unpopular opinion: chromatogram is massively overrated

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I have had 23 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe. Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied by about 8 days on nominally the same lane, which matters more in summer than in February. The independent number came back 97.9% against a claimed…

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u/dead_space_doug21 points·4 months ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/georgi_tamm7 points·4 months ago·edited

integration decision on a shoulder changes your number by half a point on its own

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u/adaeze_batista25 points·4 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/honest_syringe_20256 points·4 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/two_mil_or_one1 point·4 months ago

axis labels included, always

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u/isabela_nilsen1 point·4 months ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/quiet_reader_998 points·4 months ago

two labs, two different baselines, two different purity numbers, both honest

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