sophie_paris said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Coming at sophie_paris’s question from a different direction. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.
One thing that is still open after sophie_paris’s answer:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
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Browse GL BiochemBethLabQueen said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Pushing back on BethLabQueen here. I would resist the confidence. Half of what this board was certain about two years ago has since been quietly dropped, and nobody went back to correct the threads.
BethLabQueen said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
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.