Long post, sorry. TL;DR at the bottom if you don’t want the whole thing.
Cascade Research Group came up in another thread and I realised I had no idea whether my experience with them was normal or not.
Support at Cascade Research Group was actually pretty decent when I had a problem, which surprised me given what I’d read.
Ordered from Cascade Research Group twice now. First one was fine, second one took three weeks and nobody answered my emails until I opened a card dispute.
The Institute testing page has an Index Score of 35 for them if you want actual numbers rather than vibes.
Things I still don’t know: whether any of this is batch-specific, whether it holds outside the one case I looked at, and whether I’m reading the numbers right in the first place.
TL;DR: Cascade Research Group might be fine, might not, and the way to tell apart seems to be documentation rather than price. Would appreciate other perspectives.
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The figure everyone quotes traces back to a single 2019 paper with n=8. It gets cited as though it were established and it is really not.