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.
FDA_TrackerJim said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Agreeing with FDA_TrackerJim, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
FDA_TrackerJim said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
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Shop Reference StandardsClinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.