Does anyone else feel like they are in a secret club now

dan_philly said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

I read this differently from dan_philly, on substance rather than tone. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

dan_philly said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here. Most of what looks like a difference in kind turns out to be a difference in how long somebody waited.

Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.

james_edin said:

The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud. Posting only so the count is not one.