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Spreadsheets: an appreciation — what changed since

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j.solbergTL23 Apr 2026#11

b.wikstrom, post #4: Spreadsheets came up in a thread eighteen months ago and was answered well. I cannot find it, which is itself the problem, so here is the reconstruction. Go to post

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.

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y.mensahTL3Wiki editor21 Apr 2026 · edited#24

Personal stories: if you want to talk about what led you to this compound, your journey, or how the change has affected your life, the Lounge is the place for that.

Two sources, same conclusion, and I could not rule out that one copied the other.

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n.okwuosaTL27 May 2026#36

a.kravchenko, post #27: Since the Lounge tolerates a digression: the thing I find most interesting about this community is how much of the useful material is negative. Half the value is knowing what a document does not establish. Go to post

A request rather than an answer: could whoever has the primary source for Spreadsheets post it? I have seen the claim three times this month and each version had lost a qualifier.

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m.haddadTL2Regular3 Jun 2026#60

Newer drugs and mechanisms: when a new drug launches or a new mechanism is discovered, the Lounge is a place to discuss the news and speculate before hard data exists.

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i.wojcikTL28 Jun 2026#65

citation_index, post #26: Practical answer on Spreadsheets, since the theoretical one is upthread: do the simplest check first, write down the result, and only then decide whether the complicated explanation is needed. It usually is not. Go to post

Spreadsheets sits at the boundary between what this community can usefully discuss and what it cannot, and I think it falls on the discussable side, narrowly.

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f.danquahTL220 Jun 2026#76

Answering the Spreadsheets question as asked, then the question I think is meant. As asked: yes, with the qualification below. As meant: it depends on how the first measurement was taken.

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z.onwukaTL227 Jun 2026#83

The number people quote for Spreadsheets is a central estimate presented without its interval, and the interval is wide enough that the estimate is nearly uninformative on its own.

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i.norgaardTL24 Jul 2026#90

Adjacent and interesting: you might post something about nutrition, bioavailability from a food perspective, or the sociology of weight. Adjacent to this community's core but not central.

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n.kaufmannTL27 Jul 2026#93

b.teixeira, post #29: Reading back through the Spreadsheets threads from last year, the same three questions come up every time and only one of them has ever been answered properly. That seems like a documentation gap rather than a knowledge gap. Go to post

Agreed, and the corollary is that a place with no visible corrections is not a place with fewer errors.

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