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> This suggests that you do think soemthing like this.

Or it suggests they’re continuing the analogy (which isn’t perfect) to make a different point.

> Again, the way you test (…) is not (…)

Twice you’ve spent the majority of words in your post telling someone they’re wrong without explaining the correct methodology. That does not advance the conversation, it’s the equivalent of saying “nuh-uh” and leaving. If you disagree, it’s good form to explain why.

It doesn’t take long to say the failed magnetisation would leave all needles pointing in disparate directions, not the same consistent wrong direction. Unless there’s something else in your test that is so strong and wrong that it causes that problem, in which case the analogy starts working again.




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