julia.endo 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.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
Dr.SurgeonPGH said:Weight is a noisy signal — daily variation of one to two kilograms from glycogen, sodium and gut contents — so a fortnight of flat readings is well…
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
julia.endo 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.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
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Shop Reference StandardsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. 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.