Dr.CardioMD said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Coming at Dr.CardioMD’s question from a different direction. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.
One thing that is still open after Dr.CardioMD’s answer:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
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Shop Reference Standardshank_denver said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
hank_denver said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
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.