HPLC_Greg said:There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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.
BethLabQueen said:I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.
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View ResultsFollowing on from Dr.PulmRoch — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
Closing the loop on my own question.
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.