Dr.EndoEP said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Coming at Dr.EndoEP’s question from a different direction. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.
One concrete data point for the thread. 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.
Following on from Dr.EndoEP — and this may be the naive question:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
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Browse GL BiochemOld thread, but it comes up first when you search for this, so it is worth updating. Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath. An edited-away mistake is invisible to the next person who makes it.
FDA_TrackerJim 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, 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.