NurseLeah_Nash said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
One concrete data point for the thread. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
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Browse GL Biochemstefan_berlin 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 stefan_berlin here. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.
stefan_berlin said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.