Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.
Following on from rick_sfbay — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
Dr.RaviCardio said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.RaviCardio said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
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