MikeFit_NJ said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
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.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
One concrete data point for the thread. 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.
RetaRick_CA said:I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here.
Coming at RetaRick_CA’s question from a different direction. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
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View ResultsFollowing on from nick_SD_fit — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
Reporting back.
Update, and it is the boring outcome: nothing was wrong. The measurement I was reading had moved less than its own week-to-week variation, which somebody said upthread and I did not believe.