BiostatsBrad said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
I read this differently from BiostatsBrad, on substance rather than tone. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
BiostatsBrad said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
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Shop Reference StandardsBiostatsBrad said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.