One concrete data point for the thread. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
One thing that is still open after hans_munich’s answer:
Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?
Dr.PathRoch said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
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Coming back a few months on. It held. Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.
sophie_paris 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.