From the other side of the consultation, briefly. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.

PeptideSynthNJ said:

One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.

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.

NurseAsh_DET 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. Posting only so the count is not one.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. Carry on.