Dr.PainCLE said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
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.
Happy to go further on any of that.
emily_PDX said:The meal advice is right and incomplete without the hydration point.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Taking it to my next appointment.
Dr.PainCLE said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne concrete data point for the thread. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. No action needed from anybody.