Fair enough, it was a term I just made up to concisely convey the notion you described: “were it not for these factors, the results of the test may have had sub

Fair enough, it was a term I just made up to concisely convey the notion you described: “were it not for these factors, the results of the test may have had substantive differences.” Perhaps I failed, but I think my failure was an unfortunate distraction from the main point which you seemed to apprehend anyway. So there’s that.