Dr.NateNeph said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.
Dr.NateNeph said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
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Shop Reference Standardssean_dublin said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Mine went the same way, slower. Posting only so the count is not one.
sean_dublin said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Coming at sean_dublin’s question from a different direction. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.