BethLabQueen said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
I read this differently. The confidence in this thread is running ahead of the evidence, and I would rather the uncertainty were stated than smoothed over because it is unsatisfying.
BethLabQueen said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
BethLabQueen said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
That reframing is the part I needed. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
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Shop Reference StandardsFrom the other side of the consultation, briefly. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
EndoResFellow said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. Nothing to add that would improve it.