sarah_TO said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.
KristenIndy said:Genuine plateaus happen too, and the mechanism is metabolic adaptation plus a smaller body.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
sarah_TO said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.
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View ResultsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.