jason_paloalto said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
DebRD_ATL said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Second this.
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Shop Reference StandardsDebRD_ATL said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
Reporting back.
For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.