Dr.LeslieOBGYN said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.
Closing the loop on my own question.
I moved the tablet to the moment I wake up rather than trying to fit it around breakfast, and the difference in the following weeks was obvious. It was a timing problem, not a dose problem.
Following on from Dr.LeslieOBGYN — and this may be the naive question:
Was that from a primary source or from a summary of one?
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Shop Reference StandardspatPC_UT said:I moved the tablet to the moment I wake up rather than trying to fit it around breakfast, and the difference in the following weeks was obvious.
I read this differently from patPC_UT, on substance rather than tone. The objection nobody has made: this only works if the measurement is doing what we assume it is doing, and that assumption has not been tested here.
patPC_UT said:I moved the tablet to the moment I wake up rather than trying to fit it around breakfast, and the difference in the following weeks was obvious.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.