A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
dave_SLC said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
I read this differently from dave_SLC, on substance rather than tone. 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.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
dave_SLC said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.
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Shop Reference Standardsdave_SLC said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.