KevinCompounds said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.
One concrete data point for the thread. 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.SportsMedIN said:I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. 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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View ResultsFollowing on from mike_mealprep — and this may be the naive question:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
Closing the loop on my own question.
Update, and it is the boring outcome: nothing was wrong. The measurement I was reading had moved less than its own week-to-week variation, which somebody said upthread and I did not believe.