Found this through search years later and it is still the best discussion of the question, so adding one thing. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
raj_cambridge said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
raj_cambridge said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
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Following up because I said I would. I changed one thing, left everything else alone, and waited the full interval before looking. It resolved, and I cannot prove which half of that did it.
mike_mealprep said:I changed one thing, left everything else alone, and waited the full interval before looking.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. Nothing to add that would improve it.