Computed charges and chemical shift values were parsed from output files (see the repository in the Supporting Information for all Python workflows) for carbon and hydrogen atoms meta and para to the substituent of interest. Initially, we attributed the poor performance of several protocols in describing electronic effects at the meta-position to the difference in experimental scales between σp (-0.83 to 0.78) and σm (-0.24 to 0.71), making the latter intrinsically harder to predict computationally. However, upon further investigation using the computed charge and NMR shift values at the hydrogen (i.e., rather than carbon) atoms, we found this explanation to be incorrect. Indeed, for the meta-H atoms, we obtained an overall improvement in correlation for σm across nearly all methods tested, except for Class III charges and NMR values (Figure ). Correlations for σp values remained relatively consistent relative to those obtained from the analysis of C atoms. These results are perhaps surprising since the absolute differences between computed charges/chemical shifts are smaller for H than for C, being one bond further away from the substituent of interest, nor are these atoms directly influenced by resonance effects. Nevertheless, computed descriptors for H atoms statistically outperform C atoms, and we propose that it is the closer proximity of the meta-C atom to the substituent of interest that results in numerical differences between the different methods.