Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.

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

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

PeptideChemSF said:

The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…

I read this differently from PeptideChemSF, on substance rather than tone. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

PeptideChemSF said:

The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…

True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.

Happy to go further on any of that.

PeptideChemSF said:

The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…

This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.