traveltech_sara said:Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
mia_MS2 said:True, though the ladder is longer and that is not a neutral detail — six dose steps means six opportunities to stall on the way up, and plenty of…
That reframing is the part I needed.
traveltech_sara said:Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.
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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Shop Reference StandardsOne 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.
Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful.