Dr.NateNeph said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
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.
Dr.NateNeph said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. 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.
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Browse GL BiochemJenPlateau said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.
JenPlateau said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.