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Reporting a disappointing outcome, and why it belongs here

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s.dialloTL210 Feb 2025#4

The arithmetic in the opening post is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.

Worth stating the null on reporting a disappointing outcome before we explain it: the observation may be nothing. That possibility deserves a sentence and usually does not get one.

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g.rasmussenTL226 Mar 2025#8

Adding the measurement that post #5 says would settle it.

Nothing here is medical advice and a progress report is a description of what happened to one person under uncontrolled conditions.

I would want a second opinion before relying on that.

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septum_entryTL2Member21 May 2025#14

a.coelho, post #11: The best progress reports here read as records rather than as arguments, and that difference is visible within a sentence. Go to post

That matches what I have seen, for whatever a single anecdote is worth.

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h.eriksenTL23 Jul 2025#19

Maintenance series are the ones this subcategory needs most and receives least. The interesting questions all change once loss stops.

A single observation, in a thread that deserves better than single observations.

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l.solbergTL220 Aug 2025#25

Reporting what did not change is as useful as reporting what did, and it almost never appears.

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