Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.
NurseAsh_DET said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Pushing back on NurseAsh_DET here. 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.
NurseAsh_DET said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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Shop Reference StandardsNurseAsh_DET said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
That reframing is the part I needed. Taking it to my next appointment.