The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
Following on from Dr.NateNeph — and this may be the naive question:
What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?
labquiet_amy said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Coming at labquiet_amy’s question from a different direction. 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.
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Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence. Two of the three things suggested helped; I cannot separate them and I am not going to pretend otherwise.
Dr.PathRoch said:Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…
No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here. Most of what looks like a difference in kind turns out to be a difference in how long somebody waited.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.