Dr.EndoIndy said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
One concrete data point for the thread. 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.
One thing that is still open after dan_philly’s answer:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
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Shop Reference StandardsNicoleRaleigh said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
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.