Do 45 RPM records need higher anti-skate setting?

While science is a good objective parameter, I suggest that trying out the skating force is the best way to determine the answer. I do not see a consensus among the posters of exactly what the science is. If one assumption is incorrect, all conclusions from that are wrong. Or you could conclude that one of the explanations of skating force is correct, and procede accordingly.

While all these discussions are interesting, can you see if one of these ideas or thoughts are incorrect, or are left out, your conclusions will be wrong-sometimes incredibly so.  Lost in all this is how I actually set my anti-skate, and it didn't have to do with the beginning of a record.  It had to do with the end of the record-which turned out to be a compromise.  I could not use the setting that made the end of the record sound its best(I had to use a slightly lower skating force than that, in order to get the best sound over the entire record.).  Some assumptions(that cartridge manufacturers had arrived at recommended levels of anti-skate for their cartridge correctly, and that the anti-skate gauge was correct[or I read, from real life experiences, that it wasn't.].  See omsed's remark about lawyers and doctors.) had to be made by me.  Because so many people on Audiogon disagreed with cartridge manufacturers' anti-skate recommendations, I postulated(with some research on what arms these people were using) that anti-skate settings for unipivot tonearms might be different from the manufacturers' recommendations(which may have been based on gimballed tonearms).