VendorMark said:There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.
Same pattern here, and in the same order. Nothing to add that would improve it.
Reporting back.
Update: the thing I was blaming turned out not to be the cause. Leaving the original post as written rather than editing it, so the mistake stays visible for whoever searches this next.
One concrete data point for the thread. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.
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How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
Dr.PathRoch said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. 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.