Insulin syringe units to mg conversion — the complete reference thread

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.

MASHdoc_SA said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud. Nothing to add that would improve it.

MASHdoc_SA said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.

One concrete data point for the thread. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?