One day, Mr Oreo might have elevated a few levels and truly understands how data -> information -> knowledge and also how true knowledge can only be obtained with personal critical thought from own experiences. When/if Mr Oreo is frustrated teaching Shortbread, Chessmen, Milano and Iced Sugar (my favorites), remember my name and what has happened here by knowing that even the most talented don't oft get this for quite some time. There is usually a frustration in what they don't know that often blocks this development when there should be joy in what all can be learned.
Dislike? No. On the contrary, the hard truths being delivered can be some of the most ultimate kindnesses that anybody outside of your family can ever deliver. I have no idea if you have the emotional intelligence to understand that this criticism is meant to help, or real intelligence to understand that you really don't actually know much about this stuff as you believe that you do, but I suspect that you do and/or can. The kindness is in the time to repeatedly explain this. If you do level up a few times and get this kind of skill, then my efforts to push forward the hard truths that Mike B, Matt V, Coach Grossman and a few others kindly gave to me, but I was too dumb to see at the time. If you do get too this level, then you will understand that you don't do this for thanks or recognition, but because somebody did it for you... Dislike would look more like hitting the ignore button or never replying.
In this particular example, there are 1). words and experience from a guy that YOU KNOW has been right about a few things, 2). a relatively competent instrument and 3). photographic evidence. Not to go all Ted Lasso/Walt Whitman, but instead of being curious and perhaps asking another reading or two for which to think about this differently or more comprehensively, the default was right back to links, choose to label as a spot measurement and ask for an average. I think think that you can be better than this.
...back down a few levels, I took another measurement 12:45 that was 2922, or 2213 PAR after immersion factor (I have a photo if you do not believe me, but you should). Dennis took his in post #77 - 1863 with the factor applied. You can average or do whatever you want with these at the high-data or low-information level. However, it is also OK to level back up and just see that I probably know (the actual meaning with experience) something here and that most of the corals that we get our hands on in this hobby are pretty close to 2000-2500 PAR for large chunks of the day.
Your instinct might be to just bombard me with links and other things like you always do. Instead, perhaps I can suggest that you level up a bit and ask me how I might know (as in actually know) some of these things. If you did that, I would answer that I actually took my PAR meter on vacation with me, but also have reached out to coral collectors in the south pacific and a friend that I trade corals with in Florida and they have sent me readings from their meters. As you know, I pay attention to some details, I got the meter types and applied the correction factors when necessary. While there is no substitute for actual experience, these approaches are open to you as well... which might tell you quite a bit more than just searching, reading and linking. There have been all kinds of collectors, mariculturists, biologists and others at MACNA over the years with a penchant for these things who are happy to help. This might seem like a lot of work, but if you do it, the work is not done with just getting them to reply... it is just data and you have to turn it into information... and you might be able to turn it into knowledge one day.
