Dr.PathRoch said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
Dr.PathRoch said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
Dr.PathRoch said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
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Shop Reference StandardsClinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
carl_compliance said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. Posting only so the count is not one.