Dr.BariatricHTX said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.
Reporting back.
Reporting back — setting the target on reference weight rather than current weight turned an impossible number into a boring one.
One thing that is still open after Dr.BariatricHTX’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
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Browse GL BiochemMikeNYC_runner said:Reporting back — setting the target on reference weight rather than current weight turned an impossible number into a boring one.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
MikeNYC_runner said:Reporting back — setting the target on reference weight rather than current weight turned an impossible number into a boring one.
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.