bri_stats said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Pushing back on the consensus forming here. Consistency is not the same as correctness, and a board that agrees with itself quickly is usually agreeing with the first person who sounded certain.

bri_stats said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.

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

bri_stats said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

TinaHashiRN said:

It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.

Second this.