dave_SLC said:Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.
Correct as far as it goes. The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.
dave_SLC said:Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.ObesityLA said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. Nothing to add that would improve it.
Dr.ObesityLA said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.