How I verify every order — what worked for you?

NurseAsh_DET said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

nancy_portland said:

Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.

Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

NurseAsh_DET said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Pushing back on NurseAsh_DET 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.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. 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: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful.