Semaglutide and gallbladder disease risk — my results so far

LabKate said:

The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.

LabKate said:

The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…

Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Adding it to my notes with a link back to this thread.

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carlos_SATX said:

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals.

Same pattern here, and in the same order. Posting only so the count is not one.

carlos_SATX said:

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person. Both are real; they answer different questions and get quoted as if they were the same one.