TinaHashiRN said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
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.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
HealthEcon_DC said:Pet owner bonus of training: my dog is also losing weight because we're walking 2-3x more than before.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Taking it to my next appointment.
TinaHashiRN said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
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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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part.