Dark magic and INT

This is just going to be a quick and dirty post but may motivate a more enlightened post later, but just to reinforce the ignorance exhibited by the "player base," here's another chuckle-inducing, basically worthless discussion about what affects the accuracy and potency of Aspir. Here's another discussion from idiots talking about "tests" on the potency of Aspir, but where's the fucking data? Here's an obvious question. Did anyone ever actually disentangle accuracy from potency in a controlled experiment? Or how about, if you are at some hypothesized potency cap, why would you expect potency to increase with anything?

I mean, really, assertions like "Accuracy of [Aspir] is most highly affected by Dark Magic Skill, and is not affected by Magic Attack Bonus, or INT" are based on something rather than pointless anecdote, right?

Actually, in the talk discussion of that FFXIclopedia article on Aspir, there seems to be something like a controlled experiment with random sampling, with a RDM75 (200 dark magic skill) casting Aspir on a single worm between level 10 and 12. Assuming that "accuracy" is capped in some sense on such a low-level target, it appears that INT does affect potency (just do a quick two-sample t). Sure, type I error, blah blah, but it's better than total bullshit.