I wrote:
> I find that to be a completely bogus straw-man argument. The point of
> looking at the prairiedog time series is just to see a data series in
> which the noise level is small enough to discern the signal. If anyone's
> got years worth of data off a more modern machine, and they can extract
> a signal from that, by all means let's consider that data instead.
Just to make the point, I scraped the numbers for skink's "installcheck"
and "check" steps, which are data series I imagine at least Andres will
concede are worth paying attention to. I made no attempt to clean
outliers, so these curves are pretty noisy, but I think there is a very
clear upward bump since mid-December.
regards, tom lane
