labquiet_amy said:The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. 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.
labquiet_amy said:The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
labquiet_amy said:The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…
That reframing is the part I needed. Taking it to my next appointment.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. 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.EndoEP said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use.