From the other side of the consultation, briefly. 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.
jim_asheville said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Second this. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
jim_asheville said:The distinction that resolves most of these threads is between what is true on average and what is true for one person.
Coming at jim_asheville’s question from a different direction. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
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Browse GL BiochemOne concrete data point for the thread. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.