Bitcoin payment tutorial for first-timers — my results so far

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

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

hank_denver said:

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

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.

TrialNerd_Beth said:

The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either.

Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. Nothing to add that would improve it.

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