SteveThurs said:

Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence.

Pushing back on SteveThurs 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.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.

SteveThurs said:

Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence.

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.

SteveThurs said:

Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence.

Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework. Taking it to my next appointment.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. 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.

TrialTracker_MD said:

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

Second this.