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.
One thing that is still open after EndoResFellow’s answer:
What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?
wendy_avl said:Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.
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Shop Reference StandardsClosing the loop on my own question.
Following up because I said I would. I changed one thing, left everything else alone, and waited the full interval before looking. It resolved, and I cannot prove which half of that did it.
Dr.GastroMayo said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.
I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.