From the other side of the consultation, briefly. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.

kate.chem said:

If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Taking it to my next appointment.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.

pat_auckland said:

The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. Nothing to add that would improve it.

Moderator note: a couple of off-topic posts removed. Thread quality here is what the rules are for. Keep it up.