The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
BiostatsBrad said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Pushing back on BiostatsBrad here. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
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Browse GL BiochemBiostatsBrad said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here. Most of what looks like a difference in kind turns out to be a difference in how long somebody waited.
BiostatsBrad said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.