fiona_VT said:Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
fiona_VT said:Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
fiona_VT said:Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask.
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Browse GL BiochemAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. 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.
VendorMark 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.