DanielChem_CHI 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 DanielChem_CHI, on substance rather than tone. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
DanielChem_CHI said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.
Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful.
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View ResultsClinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.
jim_asheville said:Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.