Dr.PathRoch said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.
Dr.PathRoch said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.
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Shop Reference Standardschris_chi24 said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
Happy to go further on any of that.