PharmacoVig_BOS said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
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.
PharmacoVig_BOS said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
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.
PharmacoVig_BOS said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
james_edin said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Second this.