The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. 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.
Following on from Dr.RaviCardio — and this may be the naive question:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
kate.chem said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
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Shop Reference Standardskate.chem said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
kate.chem said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. I will report back once I have actually tried it.