matt_MKE said:The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.
Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.
matt_MKE said:The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
One concrete data point for the thread. 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.
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Browse GL Biochemdan_philly said:One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.
Pushing back on dan_philly here. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.