Telehealth provider comparison — need advice

One thing that is still open after PharmHunterJen’s answer:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

dan_philly said:

Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.

Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.

dan_philly said:

Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.

Agreed, and the size of the effect matters as much as its existence. Something real and small gets treated here as though it were real and decisive.

Found this through search years later and it is still the best discussion of the question, so adding one thing. 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.

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

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.