quinn_sf said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.
quinn_sf said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
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.
quinn_sf said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
That reframing is the part I needed.
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View ResultsAdding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.
Closing the loop on my own question.
Update: the thing I was blaming turned out not to be the cause. Leaving the original post as written rather than editing it, so the mistake stays visible for whoever searches this next.