Short answer first, then the reasoning. 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.
Asked to pay by a method with no recourse, by a supplier I had used twice before without being asked, which is what made me stop.
What I actually want to know is how people are thinking about the trade-off between reversibility and privacy, because you cannot have both.
Happy to be told the question itself is wrong.
Dr.KarenChen said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
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View ResultsSurmountFan_IN said:Asked to pay by a method with no recourse, by a supplier I had used twice before without being asked, which is what made me stop.
Same pattern here, and in the same order. Posting only so the count is not one.
Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.