bri_stats said:

One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.

Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.

bri_stats said:

One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.

Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

jim_asheville said:

The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.

This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth.

Reporting back.

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction. Correcting it here rather than editing it away.