labquiet_amy said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.

labquiet_amy said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

labquiet_amy said:

One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.

Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. 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.

Dr.NutriCornell said:

The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.

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