Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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 DebRD_ATL’s answer:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
DanielChem_CHI said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Pushing back on DanielChem_CHI here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
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Correct as far as it goes. The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.
DanielChem_CHI said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. I will report back once I have actually tried it.