labquiet_amy said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. 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.
Dr.CardioMD said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Second this. Nothing to add that would improve it.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.CardioMD said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Coming at Dr.CardioMD’s question from a different direction. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
One concrete data point for the thread. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.