Telehealth provider comparison — need advice

TrialNerd_Beth said:

Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

Reporting back.

Late follow-up. I did not do what was suggested, I did something adjacent, and it worked; posting the difference in case it matters to somebody.

Following on from TrialNerd_Beth — and this may be the naive question:

Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?

ingrid_STO said:

I did not do what was suggested, I did something adjacent, and it worked; posting the difference in case it matters to somebody.

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

ingrid_STO said:

I did not do what was suggested, I did something adjacent, and it worked; posting the difference in case it matters to somebody.

Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.