WWB vs QSC vs GGPeps — looking for input

Dr.ReproEndo said:

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

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.

One concrete data point for the thread. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?

josh_phd_bmore said:

One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.

Pushing back on josh_phd_bmore here. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.

josh_phd_bmore said:

One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number.

Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.