HPLC_Greg said:

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

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

HPLC_Greg said:

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

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.

HPLC_Greg said:

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

That reframing is the part I needed. I will report back once I have actually tried it.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

CarlaRPh_TPA said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.