One concrete data point for the thread. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
DataDave said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
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Browse GL BiochemDataDave said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
DataDave said:One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. I will report back once I have actually tried it.