Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
Happy to go further on any of that.
NurseLeah_Nash said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
NurseLeah_Nash said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.
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Shop Reference StandardsNurseLeah_Nash said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them.