PeptideSynthNJ said:True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
Coming back to something from earlier in the thread, because it keeps being talked past:
If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
One thing that is still open after PeptideSynthNJ’s answer:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
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View Resultsemily_PDX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
emily_PDX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.