labquiet_amy said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
I do not accept the framing. The question has been narrowed to the version that has a tidy answer, and the part that was dropped is the part the OP actually asked about.
labquiet_amy said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
labquiet_amy said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Taking it to my next appointment.
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Shop Reference StandardsClinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.
PeptideChemSF said:Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…
Same pattern here, and in the same order. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.