Dr.Martinez said: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…
This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud. Nothing to add that would improve it.
quinn_sf said:The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. 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.
quinn_sf said:The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…
Agreed, with the usual condition: that holds for the average and this board is a collection of individuals. A population claim and a personal prediction are different things and get quoted interchangeably.
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Shop Reference Standardsquinn_sf said:The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the…
This answered a question I did not know how to ask. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Moderator note: leaving this open. It is being argued well and the disagreement is the useful part. Carry on.