PeptideSynthNJ said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

I read this differently from PeptideSynthNJ, on substance rather than tone. 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.

PeptideSynthNJ said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. Thread quality here is what the rules are for. Keep it up.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.

TinaHashiRN said:

Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then…

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.