NurseLeah_Nash said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

Dr.PathRoch 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…

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.

One concrete data point for the thread. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.

One thing that is still open after Dr.PathRoch’s answer:

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

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. No action needed from anybody.