One thing that is still open after claudia_zurich’s answer:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
TinaHashiRN said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
TinaHashiRN said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
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Shop Reference StandardsTinaHashiRN said:The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. 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. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.