On the subject in the title: Travel coolers and how long they really hold Working notes rather than a conclusion.
A narrow question about travel coolers, deliberately narrow, because the broad version has been asked here four times and produced four long threads and no answer.
One question, stated units, stated method, and what I have already ruled out.
Travel coolers has been discussed here with more heat than it deserves, mostly because two definitions have been in play the whole time.
Do not judge cold-chain performance from a single delivery in either direction. It is a distribution and one sample from it is one sample.
I would put a moderate confidence on that and no more.
Where I part company with post #40, and it is a narrow parting.
Where I have landed on travel coolers, having got it wrong once in public: the direction is clear, the magnitude is not, and anyone quoting a precise magnitude has borrowed it from somewhere that did not measure it.
I would keep travel coolers and the decision it usually gets used for separate in this thread. They are related and they are not the same question, and merging them is why the last one went badly.
I have three months of notes on travel coolers and the honest summary is that the trend is real and the week-to-week numbers are noise. I nearly drew the opposite conclusion from the first fortnight.
Clear enough that I do not think I have a follow-up, which is unusual.
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