PeptideSynthNJ said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
PeptideSynthNJ said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
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Browse GL BiochemLipidDoc_ATL said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud. Nothing to add that would improve it.
LipidDoc_ATL said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.