Dr.SleepRoch said:Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth.
Dr.SleepRoch said:Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
Coming at Dr.SleepRoch’s question from a different direction. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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.
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Shop Reference StandardsFollowing on from Dr.SleepRoch — and this may be the naive question:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
TirzTom said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Pushing back on TirzTom here. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.