One concrete data point for the thread. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
One thing that is still open after LipidDoc_ATL’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
raj_cambridge said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.
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View Resultsraj_cambridge said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.
raj_cambridge said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.