hyun_seoul said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Agreeing with hyun_seoul, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
BrianDallas92 said:Blood count monitoring for micronutrients: my doctor noticed my MCV (mean corpuscular volume) trending up at month 6: 88 → 96 fL.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
hyun_seoul said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
I read this differently from hyun_seoul, 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.
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