Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.
carl_compliance said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
carl_compliance said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
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.
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Shop Reference Standardscarl_compliance said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion.