DataDave said:Resolved, and the thing that resolved it was the least interesting suggestion in the thread.
I read this differently from DataDave, on substance rather than tone. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
DataDave said:Resolved, and the thing that resolved it was the least interesting suggestion in the thread.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
Happy to go further on any of that.
DataDave said:Resolved, and the thing that resolved it was the least interesting suggestion in the thread.
That reframing is the part I needed. Taking it to my next appointment.
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Happy to go further on any of that.
Dr.EM_Chicago said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.