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A sensory or flavoromics study with a small, selected product set can justify conclusions about those samples and a method pilot, but it cannot establish universal markers, rankings, or mechanisms for an entire whiskey category.
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A pilot can still be highly useful for method selection and local product comparison; the limitation concerns external generalization.
Both studies use selected, small sample sets and explicitly frame their outputs as methods or candidate markers rather than universal category laws.
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