Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
This is really the essence of the entire argument. Yet, at the same time the APs will say there is no guarantee. Well, they're going to have to make up their minds.
Make up their minds about what? It's very simple as you've been told many, many times. Your results will approach the expected results of what you are playing over time. It does not matter how often you pause or when you pause. With high variance there will be some fairly long stretches where you play above or below the expected results.

This is not rocket science.