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.

MASHdoc_SA said:

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

Second this.

Moderator note: the sourcing question belongs in the vendor section and has been split out.

One concrete data point for the thread. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.

One thing that is still open after MASHdoc_SA’s answer:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?