UK people - is Boots ever actually in stock?? — 12 month update

TinaHashiRN said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

VendorMark said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.

VendorMark said:

For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine.

That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.