bri_stats said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Pushing back on bri_stats here. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
bri_stats said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
bri_stats said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
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Shop Reference StandardsClinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
Dr.RenalNash said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.