MASHdoc_SA said:

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…

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. Nothing to add that would improve it.

hank_denver said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.

anna.melb_AU said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.

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