KevinCompounds said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
No disagreement with KevinCompounds. One condition attached. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
TrialTracker_MD said:Weight is a noisy signal — daily variation of one to two kilograms from glycogen, sodium and gut contents — so a fortnight of flat readings is well…
This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else.
KevinCompounds said:It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any.
Pushing back on KevinCompounds 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.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.