A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
Dr.CardioMD said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
Dr.CardioMD said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.
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Shop Reference StandardsDr.CardioMD said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. 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.