From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.
Following on from GenomicsKate — and this may be the naive question:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
Dr.EndoEP said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
I read this differently. The confidence in this thread is running ahead of the evidence, and I would rather the uncertainty were stated than smoothed over because it is unsatisfying.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.EndoEP said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.