Dr.Martinez said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
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.
BrianDallas92 said:Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.
That reframing is the part I needed. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
Dr.Martinez said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
Pushing back on Dr.Martinez here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne 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.