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Turnaround times and what they mean for a decision — one year on
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Cross-checking one lot with two services independently is the cleanest test available and is rarely done because it costs twice as much.
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gradient_file, post #3: Narrowing post #2, because the general version has more than one answer. The number people quote for Turnaround times is a central estimate presented without its interval, and the interval is wide enough that the estimate is nearly uninformative on its own. Go to post
Worth separating Turnaround times as a question about the compound from Turnaround times as a question about the documentation. They get answered by different people and only one of them is answerable here.
t.varga, post #1: On the subject in the title: Turnaround times and what they mean for a decision — one year on Working notes rather than a conclusion. Reading back through what has been written here about Turnaround times, three questions come up every time and only one has ever been answered properly. Listing all three, with what I think the state of… Go to post
On Turnaround times: the maintained page in the documentation commons covers the general case with citations and a review date, which is more reliable than any reply here including this one.
f.espinoza, post #4: Reading this Turnaround times thread as someone who came in with a fixed view: the third and seventh replies moved me and the confident ones did not. Go to post
Two things can be true about Turnaround times at once: the mechanism is plausible and the evidence for the size of the effect is thin. Most of the argument here is people defending the first against attacks on the second.
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