PeptideChemSF said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
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.
One thing that is still open after PeptideChemSF’s answer:
What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?
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Shop Reference StandardsBethLabQueen said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
BethLabQueen said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.