From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
pat_auckland said:Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
pat_auckland said:Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.
Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.
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Shop Reference Standardspat_auckland said:Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework.