hank_denver said:For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.
Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.
hank_denver said:For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. 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.
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Shop Reference Standardsanna.melb_AU 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…
Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
anna.melb_AU 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…
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.