From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
Dr.PainCLE said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
Dr.PainCLE said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
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.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.PainCLE said:The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.