sean_dublin said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.
Dr.ReproEndo said:Right, and one flattering data point from a group buy is not consistency.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
sean_dublin said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
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Shop Reference StandardsThe figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.
Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. Thread quality here is what the rules are for. Keep it up.