HPLC_Greg said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
HPLC_Greg said:If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. 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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Shop Reference StandardsDr.SleepRoch said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.
Dr.SleepRoch said:Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion.
Coming at Dr.SleepRoch’s question from a different direction. 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.