NicoleRaleigh said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
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.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
andrew_nyc said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Second this. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.
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Shop Reference Standardsandrew_nyc said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.
One concrete data point for the thread. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.