5-Amino-1MQ — 12 month update

josh_phd_bmore 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.

josh_phd_bmore said:

One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Moderator note: reminder that nothing in this thread is medical advice, and that clinical claims need a source. Thread quality here is what the rules are for. Keep it up.

kate.chem said:

That holds where the measurement is reliable.

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

kate.chem said:

That holds where the measurement is reliable.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. 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.