One concrete data point for the thread. 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.
Following on from Dr.RenalNash — and this may be the naive question:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
dave_SLC said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
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Shop Reference Standardsdave_SLC said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.