Following on from Dr.CardioMD — and this may be the naive question:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

VendorMark said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

I read this differently. The confidence in this thread is running ahead of the evidence, and I would rather the uncertainty were stated than smoothed over because it is unsatisfying.

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. Report rather than reply if it drifts again.

VendorMark said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.