Record what it was like, change exactly one thing, then check and write down what happened.
Change three things and the fault clears, and you have learned nothing: you do not know which one did it, or whether you have introduced a new problem that has not shown up yet.
Before, change, after. Three columns. The before column is the one people skip, and without it the after column means nothing -- you cannot say a change helped if you did not record what you were comparing against. Written down, not remembered.
Check yourself: You changed three things and the fault has gone. What do you know?
Answer: That the fault has gone. Several simultaneous changes can hide which one affected the problem.
With one variable changed, the result is attributable. With three, any of them, or a combination, could be responsible -- and one of the other two may have introduced something that has not surfaced yet.
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