Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. 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.
FDA_TrackerJim said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
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.
FDA_TrackerJim said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.
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Shop Reference StandardsFrom the other side of the consultation, briefly. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
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