Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. 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.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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 dan_philly — and this may be the naive question:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
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Shop Reference StandardsFDA_TrackerJim 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 FDA_TrackerJim, on substance rather than tone. Pushing back on the consensus forming here. Consistency is not the same as correctness, and a board that agrees with itself quickly is usually agreeing with the first person who sounded certain.