TrialTracker_MD said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.

TrialTracker_MD said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

EndoResFellow said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

EndoResFellow said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

Coming at EndoResFellow’s question from a different direction. 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.