dave_SLC said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated. Without knowing where someone started, the same number can be an excellent result or a disappointing one.
dave_SLC said:If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
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Shop Reference Standardspam_columbus said:True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. Nothing to add that would improve it.
pam_columbus said:True, and it depends on a baseline nobody has stated.
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.