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Case 2 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Method note for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: use “Record the orig...

Case 3 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Correction note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: retain the...

Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not identify direction or causation, and exploratory results n...

Case 115 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · uncertainty exercise Summary draft for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods...

Case 1 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? The draft summary of a fictional reading exercise moves from an animal-model o...

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

Case 23 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured Method note for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: u...

Case 33 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive · source wording exercise Method note for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an...

Method note for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources”: use “Locate the primary study and confirm that it…” as a row headin...