If you remove the claim of huge gains by commercial accounters (their motives are definitely questionable) you are left with only a handful of people who purport significant gains that cannot be explained away by EQ or late growth.
You talk about statistical significance Twofister but… conformant gain reporting would also induce the same statistical deviance. Example: I have almost put my unit in a vice before and looked at it from every angle (including pushing my erection angle down) to see significant growth just because I see a lot of people growing and I want to be similar.
For instance: I reported a gain of 0.5” in girth, but it was mainly swelling and realistically I’ve gained about 0.2 inches in girth in two years of girth focused exercises but I wanted to believe it was more.
In length I have gained perhaps 0.3 inches in the same two years and that could easily be explained away by a higher EQ or loosening of tendons and thus a lower erection angle (illusion of more length)
I own a couple of Internet based companies (remain unmentioned), as part of our online marketing, we employ extensive SEO but also outsourced blogging and forum content generation to encourage not only user-awareness but to seed consumer confidence in the designated market-place.
If I owned a penis enlargement store, I would have a number of accounts on various forums such as Thunders all purporting significant gains, I may even employ a few people to maintain them if the ad revenue justified the overhead.
Does that mean everyone who gains is lying? No… I think a mixture of improved EQ (particularly amongst the more senior members) late growth and swelling account for a lot of recorded gains; then you include those like me who… wish to gain so badly that they may skew their results via a myriad of flawed measuring techniques and… you’re not left with much.
Sorry for the inflammatory post - it’s not directly insulting and I hope people appreciate that I’m speaking my mind rather than setting out to be offensive.