lisa_labSD said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Pushing back on lisa_labSD here. 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.
lisa_labSD said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
lisa_labSD said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.
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Shop Reference StandardsFrom the other side of the consultation, briefly. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
Dr.EndoIndy said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.