josh_phd_bmore said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
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.
josh_phd_bmore said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.
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Shop Reference StandardsFrom the other side of the consultation, briefly. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
Happy to go further on any of that.
Dr.LeslieOBGYN said:Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.