Dr.ObesityLA said:Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
Happy to go further on any of that.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
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Shop Reference StandardsSleepDoc_PDX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
I read this differently from SleepDoc_PDX, on substance rather than tone. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
SleepDoc_PDX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.