RetaRick_CA said:It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.
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.
The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. 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.
Dr.LipidDallas said: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…
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
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View ResultsA narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.