Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
Dr.NateNeph said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Pushing back on Dr.NateNeph here. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
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Browse GL BiochemDr.NateNeph said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
Dr.NateNeph said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
That reframing is the part I needed. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.