NurseAsh_DET said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.
mia_MS2 said:Weight is a noisy signal — daily variation of one to two kilograms from glycogen, sodium and gut contents — so a fortnight of flat readings is well…
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
NurseAsh_DET said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Pushing back on NurseAsh_DET here. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
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View ResultsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
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