Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid.

I would take the narrow conclusion. Broad ones are more interesting and less true.

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.

My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing.

Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.

Fifteen years of this and the function column is the only one that changed anything for me. Also, one page of history, printed, handed over at the sta…

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that. Currently on reading too many papers myself.

Read the methods section. It is the only part that says whether the conclusion is allowed to exist.

Split orders. Two small parcels beat one large one for reasons that have nothing to do with price.