Cash vs crypto vs card — 6 month update

One thing that is still open after james_edin’s answer:

What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?

kate.chem said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

Pushing back on kate.chem here. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.

kate.chem said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.

kate.chem said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Reporting back.

Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence. Two of the three things suggested helped; I cannot separate them and I am not going to pretend otherwise.