Adding 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.
JenPlateau said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.
JenPlateau said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Coming at JenPlateau’s question from a different direction. There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.
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Shop Reference StandardsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.
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