Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
TinaHashiRN said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Same pattern here, and in the same order. Posting only so the count is not one.
TinaHashiRN said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Coming at TinaHashiRN’s question from a different direction. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
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View ResultsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
Following on from TinaHashiRN — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?