Dr.NutriCornell said:There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.
Coming at Dr.NutriCornell’s question from a different direction. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
One concrete data point for the thread. 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 same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
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Shop Reference StandardsDoseLogDan 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…
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
DoseLogDan 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…
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.