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Limit of the answer in “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: “Expand it on first use and name the…” is an excerpt from the discuss...

Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...

Case 27 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Certificate of analysis: wh...

Case 2 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. Re...

Reader check for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: distinguish the discussion point “Report effect size, confidence interval an...

Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...

Reader check for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: distinguish the discussion point “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference inte...

Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null findings, exclusions and limitations. Separate the authors’ interpretation from the table’s dir...

Case 8 — A correction log that survives the next archive update Each entry should retain the date, old text, corrected text, reason and source referen...

Case 20 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? An apparent difference can motivate a method question without proving ...

Case 43 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Reading an abstract without skipping the metho...

Case 11 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Use a comparison-status column: directly comparable, comparable with s...