Dr.NutriCornell said:What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and…
Mine went the same way, slower. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
Dr.NutriCornell said:What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and…
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
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Shop Reference StandardsFollowing on from Dr.NutriCornell — and this may be the naive question:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
Dr.GutHealth said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
I read this differently from Dr.GutHealth, on substance rather than tone. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.