NurseKim_ATL said:Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
Reporting back.
Coming back a few months on. It held. Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.
One thing that is still open after NurseKim_ATL’s answer:
What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?
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Shop Reference StandardsOld thread, but it comes up first when you search for this, so it is worth updating. 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.
JessicaM_2024 said:Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.
Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.