Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. 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.
Following on from MarkLI_maint — and this may be the naive question:
What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?
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.
I read this differently from Dr.CardioMD, on substance rather than tone. Not convinced. The evidence being cited is consistent with the conclusion and also consistent with two other conclusions nobody has ruled out.
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Browse GL BiochemDr.CardioMD said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.