steph_laguna said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
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.
Closing the loop on my own question.
Follow-up: it was dead space. Switching to a low-dead-space fixed-needle syringe gave me the tenth dose back.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. 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.
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Browse GL BiochemVanRx_Mike said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
VanRx_Mike said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.