quinn_sf said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
quinn_sf said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.
anders_CPH said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use.