ingrid_STO said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Agreeing with ingrid_STO, 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.
Dr.GastroMayo said:Right, and one flattering data point from a group buy is not consistency.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
ingrid_STO said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
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Shop Reference StandardsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.