One concrete data point for the thread. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
dave_SLC said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Coming at dave_SLC’s question from a different direction. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
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Closing the loop. The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.
Dr.Martinez said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here. Most of what looks like a difference in kind turns out to be a difference in how long somebody waited.