UK people - is Boots ever actually in stock?? — 12 month update

BariatricNurseD said:

I changed one thing, left everything else alone, and waited the full interval before looking.

I read this differently from BariatricNurseD, on substance rather than tone. 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.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.

BariatricNurseD said:

I changed one thing, left everything else alone, and waited the full interval before looking.

That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.

Happy to go further on any of that.

BariatricNurseD said:

I changed one thing, left everything else alone, and waited the full interval before looking.

Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.

TinaHashiRN said:

Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. Nothing to add that would improve it.