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Correction note for “Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing?”: retain the wording beginning “Create separate columns for...

Clarification for “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: the point beginning “Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating ra...

Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.

Case 18 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records and changes in reporting ov...

State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...