Gallbladder disease risk — my results so far

dan_philly said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

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

dan_philly said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.

dan_philly said:

If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes.

From the other side of the consultation, briefly. 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.

Dr.AddMedPHL said:

The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction.