A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
Dr.RaviCardio said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Pushing back on Dr.RaviCardio here. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
Dr.RaviCardio said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.RaviCardio said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
Closing the loop on my own question.
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.