Day 3 on sema and I feel like death warmed over — need advice

Dr.EndoIndy said:

It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Whatever the answer turns out to be, the method for getting there is the same: state the assumption, do the arithmetic in public, and invite the correction. That is slower than asserting, and it is the only version that survives being wrong.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part.

SleepDoc_PDX said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. 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.

SleepDoc_PDX said:

Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.

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.