Dr.CardioMD said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
Dr.CardioMD said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here. Most of what looks like a difference in kind turns out to be a difference in how long somebody waited.
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View ResultsDr.CardioMD said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.
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.
Happy to go further on any of that.