My insurance FINALLY approved it - here is exactly what I did — 12 month update

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. 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.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

TirzTom said:

Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.

Pushing back on TirzTom here. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

TirzTom said:

Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.

Correct as far as it goes. The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.

TirzTom said:

Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.

This answered a question I did not know how to ask. I will report back once I have actually tried it.