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.
Following on from chris_chi24 — and this may be the naive question:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
LabKate said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. 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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Browse GL BiochemLabKate said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.
LabKate said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.