PharmacoVig_BOS said:

It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.

Same pattern here, and in the same order. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.

DataDave said:

Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.

Coming at DataDave’s question from a different direction. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

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