Non-scale victories mega-thread — 12 month update

From 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.

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

SleepDoc_PDX said:

Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. I will report back once I have actually tried it.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.

TrialNerd_Beth said:

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

Same pattern here, and in the same order. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

Moderator note: a couple of off-topic posts removed. Tagging this one for the weekly digest.