SleepDoc_PDX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
I read this differently from SleepDoc_PDX, on substance rather than tone. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
SleepDoc_PDX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.
SleepDoc_PDX said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
EndoResFellow said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. Posting only so the count is not one.