Dr.KarenChen said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
I do not accept the framing. The question has been narrowed to the version that has a tidy answer, and the part that was dropped is the part the OP actually asked about.
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.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
Dr.MetabolicMD said:The question has been narrowed to the version that has a tidy answer, and the part that was dropped is the part the OP actually asked about.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
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View ResultsOne thing that is still open after DanielChem_CHI’s answer:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Update: the thing I was blaming turned out not to be the cause. Leaving the original post as written rather than editing it, so the mistake stays visible for whoever searches this next.