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.

Worth separating that from the trial evidence, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.

Following on from Dr.KarenChen — and this may be the naive question:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part.

Dr.PulmRoch said:

One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.

That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.

Happy to go further on any of that.

Dr.PulmRoch 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. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.