The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
Following on from Dr.RheumBOS — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
Dr.PathRoch said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.PathRoch said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
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.
Dr.PathRoch said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
That reframing is the part I needed.