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Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...
Case 8 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides ...
Case 33 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Correction note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertai...
Case 26 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Animal evidence and the limits of translatio...
Case 10 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Two figures use different units and one axis is logarithmic. How should a comparison be d...
Reader check for “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: distinguish the discussion point “Link both versions, record dates and check whether…” f...
Clarification for “A correction log for an archive article”: the point beginning “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” belongs t...
Separate document provenance, identity, purity and the conditions measured. A percentage without its method and sample linkage cannot establish all of...
Case 13 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Clarification for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: the point beginning “...
Correction note for “Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing?”: retain the wording beginning “Do not subtract the two per...
Case 25 — Correlation in a small observational dataset · source wording exercise Reader check for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: dist...
Case 27 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertaint...