hans_munich said:There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
ingrid_STO said:Right, and one flattering data point from a group buy is not consistency.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask.
hans_munich said:There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
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