The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
One thing that is still open after Dr.Martinez’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
VendorMark said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Pushing back on VendorMark here. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
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Shop Reference StandardsVendorMark said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
VendorMark said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
That reframing is the part I needed. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.