One thing that is still open after PedsEndoPhilly’s answer:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
stefan_berlin said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
stefan_berlin said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
That is right for the common case. Whether it is right for the case being asked about depends on a detail that has not been given.
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Shop Reference Standardsstefan_berlin said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence. Two of the three things suggested helped; I cannot separate them and I am not going to pretend otherwise.