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hyun_seoul said:

The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use.

hyun_seoul said:

The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.

Coming at hyun_seoul’s question from a different direction. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.

This was answered several pages up and is worth repeating rather than re-litigating:

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.

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. No action needed from anybody.

lori_vegas 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 lori_vegas, on substance rather than tone. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.