From the other side of the consultation, briefly. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.
Dr.CardioMD said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use.
Dr.CardioMD said:The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. 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.
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I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.
One thing that is still open after Dr.CardioMD’s answer:
What would you measure differently if you were starting again?