josh_phd_bmore said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
josh_phd_bmore said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
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Shop Reference StandardsTrialNerd_Beth said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Same pattern here, and in the same order. Nothing to add that would improve it.
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Closing the loop. The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.