Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. 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.
Dr.SurgeonPGH said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud.
Dr.SurgeonPGH said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Coming at Dr.SurgeonPGH’s question from a different direction. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.
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One thing that is still open after Dr.SurgeonPGH’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?