Mickey: How does one review the effectiveness of thermal paste?

How does one review the effectiveness of thermal paste?

This might seem a silly question, one just reports the CPU temperature under the same load;
but the fan might be controlled to run such that the CPU temperature remains at a given set
temperature.
Under such feedback most all thermal pastes would seem to perform nearly the same,
toothpaste included.

Would fan speed then perhaps be a better measure?

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