Distinguishing a red flag from an inconvenience — a second dataset

On the subject in the title: Distinguishing a red flag from an inconvenience — a second dataset Working notes rather than a conclusion.

Posting a small dataset on Distinguishing a red flag. It is mine, it is uncontrolled, and the method is stated so it can be discounted appropriately.

What I would like is not agreement but a second dataset collected by someone with no stake in mine. If one exists I would rather read it than argue for this one.

Filing a mild objection to the consensus on Distinguishing a red flag. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit.

Adding the measurement that post #2 says would settle it.

Nothing here should be read as an accusation against a named company, and the guidelines exist so that reports remain reports.

The honest answer is that it depends, and here is what it depends on.

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

Two sentences on Distinguishing a red flag and then I will stop, because the rest is speculation and the thread is better without mine.

What is documented is narrow. What is inferred from it is broad. The gap between them is where every argument here lives.

The guidelines draw that line for a practical reason as much as a fair one: reports accumulate into something useful and allegations do not.

I looked this up rather than remembered it, which is the right order.

Agreed on all of that, and I have nothing to add to it.

Answering the question post #4 raises rather than the one it answers.

Testimonials without a lot, a date, a method or a service are not evidence and are not a red flag either. They are simply not evidence.

Same conclusion as the reply above, reached differently, which is mildly reassuring.

Taking post #6 at face value and following it one step further.

The most useful contribution to this subcategory is a resolved case written up with the resolution, because the unresolved ones are all anyone remembers.

Inconsistency across documents: a certificate stating one purity, a website claiming another, and a supplier's verbal representation claiming a third, all on the same product, is a red flag for either incompetence or deception.

It is the sort of thing that seems obvious in retrospect and was not at the time.

On post #8 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.

I think the Distinguishing a red flag question is answerable and has not been answered, which is a more optimistic position than most of this thread.

A stock listing that never changes and a lead time that never varies are both worth noticing. Real operations have variation in them.

I am aware this is the third time this month I have made this point.

Distinguishing a red flag would be much easier to settle if anyone reported the denominator. Almost nobody reports the denominator.