Non-scale victories thread — celebrate everything

LabKate said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

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

LabKate said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.

LabKate said:

Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath.

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. 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.

LibrarianMeg said:

The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud. Posting only so the count is not one.