This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
Post #118 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
Small correction to my own earlier position on draft on reconstitution arithmetic. I had the units the wrong way round, which changes the conclusion by an order of magnitude and therefore changes it entirely.
Coming back to post #120, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
Nothing in a maintained document is medical advice and the review should confirm the page says so where it matters rather than only in a footer.
Where the review finds the content is right but the framing overstates it, that is the most valuable catch available at this stage.
On reflection I would soften that slightly.
Quietly grateful for the plain phrasing. Not every thread gets that.
The four criteria are that the question recurs, that the content is correct and sourced or labelled as community practice, that somebody will be named as maintainer with a review date, and that no unresolved substantive objection stands.
If that reads as pedantic, it is, and it has saved me twice.
Post #125 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.
For anyone finding this later: the short answer on draft on reconstitution arithmetic is that it depends on one thing, and the rest of the thread is people identifying which thing.
What I would want before treating draft on reconstitution arithmetic as settled: the method, the sample, and whether anyone tried to find the opposite result. Two of the three are usually missing.
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