I do not believe you can apply Hawthorne to this scenario. For a few reasons.
1) These are not plant workers being watched over for their productivity.
2) This is an illegal business. Morals and standards are a bit different. Anonymous Drug dealers don’t care who is watching them as long as it’s not the law.
3) Even the link you shared mentions it being a questionable theory that maybe only yielded *temporary* results.
There is such thing as companies or industries becoming too big to fail. How much scrutiny have Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon gone under? Yet they’re still consistently some of the most profitable and successful entities on earth. Your Amazon driver is still a single mom getting paid 1/3rd a living wage, and your McNuggets still come from a pink paste. These Chinese labs selling for $9 a vial have the leverage here.
Not sure if you think you’re a wise guy or trying to be facetious on that last part, but you quoted the high end of my numbers for your math project to exaggerate the outcomes. However, If you’re trying to imply that people don’t spend hundreds or thousands of dollars a year on gear, you’re out of your mind. Not to mention the different concentrations, esters, and costs of different compounds. This idea of yours would include oils, orals, GH, and all the new peptides flooding the market. Or do you only care about quality of anabolic oils? Whether it be for resell, personal use, or a combination of those purposes, people spend a lot of money on this stuff. Saying $5 a vial is probably a lowball estimate, and it’s going to apply to every single item on an order. Don’t forget how capitalism works. Once this new testing is in high demand, it’s going to get real expensive. Lastly, everyone is already used to the current standard, so you’re fighting an uphill battle by saying “hey guys I know this thing isn’t broken but I found a way to fix it for more money and effort!”
If you guys come up with the vegan, non GMO, metal-free, organic steroids I’ll give them a try. Not sure if it’s passion, stubbornness, or a savior complex, but this is a lot of energy put into something that multiple people have told you they don’t care about. Reading through this thread it sounds like you believe you’re onto a groundbreaking discovery and everyone else is silly for not praising you. Just remember, if you think everyone in the room is a jackass except for you, then you’re most likely the jackass in the room.