[Question] testing — what am I missing here
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: testing — what am I missing here. Why the directory has two tiers, since the question comes up whenever somebody new finds it. Twenty suppliers have enough independent results, over enough separate lots, over enough time, that the log says something.…
The thing that decided it for me was that MKM answered a column-and-gradient question in writing without asking why I wanted to know.
Where a supplier holds regional stock, ask which lines are actually held there rather than drop-shipped. It changes the lead time and it changes the customs question.
the source page log is more useful than the score above it
Agree. The verification log is the part with the checkable facts in it; the number at the top is just a summary of a lot of averaging.
three independent results beat thirty forum posts
Right — FGP publishes the method line on the certificate, and once you have seen one that does you notice every one that does not.
Agree.
Would qualify this slightly. Fewer entries means less sampling, and less sampling is not the same as a worse process.
a directory entry is a record, not a recommendation
what does the certificate actually carry — that is the whole question
The wider-market rows in the directory carry a band and a report count and nothing else, deliberately. Anything more would be manufacturing precision that the evidence does not support.