NicoleRaleigh said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Pushing back on NicoleRaleigh here. Pushing back on the consensus forming here. Consistency is not the same as correctness, and a board that agrees with itself quickly is usually agreeing with the first person who sounded certain.
NicoleRaleigh said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.
NicoleRaleigh said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.
Dr.AddMedPHL said:Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…
Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.