Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.
Following on from NurseAsh_DET — and this may be the naive question:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
dan_philly said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.
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Shop Reference StandardsOP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.
MASHdoc_SA said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.