Privacy coins and HIPAA — my results so far

TrialTracker_MD said:

The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.

Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.

One concrete data point for the thread. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.

Dr.NutriCornell said:

Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody…

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.

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

Following on from Dr.PulmRoch — and this may be the naive question:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

Closing the loop on my own question.

Closing the loop. The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.