TRIUMPH-2 obesity without diabetes — anyone have experience?

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

Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?

amy_econ_NJ said:

Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…

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

amy_econ_NJ said:

Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…

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.

amy_econ_NJ said:

Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the…

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.