The Price of Thought, a September 25 paper, reports detectable effects of 6.2–19.156 basis points per day against a 0.25-basis-point economic threshold. Its annual analysis uses 241 return dates; the separate repeated-generation audit uses 48 formations and 68 return dates.

Our arithmetic puts that precision gap at about 25–77 times the threshold. An inconclusive comparison cannot establish economic equivalence: the instrument may simply be too blunt for the decision. Hundreds of thousands of predictions also cannot supply hundreds of thousands of independent market days. Paper and methods