Dr.LeslieOBGYN said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
A1cHero_PHX said:Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
Dr.LeslieOBGYN said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
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