One thing that is still open after CarlaRPh_TPA’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
One thing that is still open after CarlaRPh_TPA’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
Reporting back.
Coming back a few months on. It held. Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.
NicoleRaleigh said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
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Shop Reference StandardsNicoleRaleigh said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else.
Adding 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.