DataDave said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Pushing back on DataDave here. 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.
DataDave said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
Fair, and it stops being fair at the extremes. The middle of the range is well understood; the ends are where the honest answer is that nobody knows.
DataDave said:Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here.
That reframing is the part I needed. Taking it to my next appointment.
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Shop Reference StandardsFrom the other side of the consultation, briefly. 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.
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Update: the thing I was blaming turned out not to be the cause. Leaving the original post as written rather than editing it, so the mistake stays visible for whoever searches this next.