One concrete data point for the thread. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
Following on from SleepDoc_PDX — and this may be the naive question:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
FDA_TrackerJim said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
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Shop Reference StandardsFDA_TrackerJim said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.
FDA_TrackerJim said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
That reframing is the part I needed. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.