> Other folks don't do that, and while not 1:1, they are able to correlate the performance of a benchmark with the performance of their own use case. You can c

> Other folks don't do that, and while not 1:1, they are able to correlate the performance of a benchmark with the performance of their own use case. You can correlate lots of things. Poor countries increase penis size. Ice cream leads to murder. Cheese kills people by tangling them in their bedsheets. These things are strongly correlated. But they have no causative relationship. To put it another way, a single benchmark test used find a solution is scientifically equivalent to finding one "average" man, making him run a series of athletic tests, and making his performance the benchmark for men's athletics.