I guess to your response that stats don't work the way I mentioned, all I can say is it depends on the situation. The situation I outlined actually does occur, but not all situations show such a drastic change. This again has to do with the way the stat checks occur and linearity. I don't think this is the proper forum to start arguing 1s and 0s so I'll just leave it at that.

I think due to the absolute number of threads complaining about stats, there is something that irks to community greatly despite not really having an understanding of how they work. So from this perspective you're definitely in the majority and myself the minority on the issue. At this point I don't really see anything coming out of a line by line back and forth, so I'll just call it on my end.