Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?
Dr.EndoEP said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
I read this differently from Dr.EndoEP, on substance rather than tone. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
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Browse GL BiochemDr.EndoEP said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.