Following on from LibrarianMeg — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
MASHdoc_SA said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Pushing back on MASHdoc_SA here. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.
MASHdoc_SA said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
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.
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Shop Reference StandardsMASHdoc_SA said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.