traveltech_sara said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
Coming at traveltech_sara’s question from a different direction. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
One thing that is still open after traveltech_sara’s answer:
How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?
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Browse GL BiochemPeptideSynthNJ said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Pushing back on PeptideSynthNJ here. The counter-case has not been addressed. Somebody upthread described the situation that does not fit, and the thread moved on rather than engaging with it, which is the failure mode this board is supposed to avoid.
PeptideSynthNJ said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Correct as far as it goes. The part it does not cover is what to do when the honest answer is "not enough data", which is more often than anyone likes.