Dr.GutHealth said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.
Dr.GutHealth said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
That reframing is the part I needed.
Reporting back.
Following up because I said I would. I changed one thing, left everything else alone, and waited the full interval before looking. It resolved, and I cannot prove which half of that did it.
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Shop Reference StandardsTrialTracker_MD said:I changed one thing, left everything else alone, and waited the full interval before looking.
Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale.
TrialTracker_MD said:I changed one thing, left everything else alone, and waited the full interval before looking.
This was answered several pages up and is worth repeating rather than re-litigating:
Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.