Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
One thing that is still open after Dr.Martinez’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
VendorMark said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Pushing back on VendorMark here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.
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Shop Reference StandardsVendorMark said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
VendorMark said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. I will report back once I have actually tried it.