Took a progress photo and WOW — 12 month update

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?

DeniseRN_TPA said:

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction.

Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.

Happy to go further on any of that.

DeniseRN_TPA said:

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction.

No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here. Most of what looks like a difference in kind turns out to be a difference in how long somebody waited.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

DeniseRN_TPA said:

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction.

That reframing is the part I needed.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.