LindaRN_retired said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
hank_denver said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.
One concrete data point for the thread. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
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