JenPlateau said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.
cory_ATX said:Right, and one flattering data point from a group buy is not consistency.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Taking it to my next appointment.
JenPlateau said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
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View ResultsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.