julia.endo said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.
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Shop Reference StandardsPeptideChemSF said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
PeptideChemSF said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.