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Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records and changes in reporting over time. Such material can suggest questions but cannot e...

Case 23 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation Describe the species, model and outcome actually studied. Differences in biology and study con...

Method note for “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together”: use “Make synthetic examples explicit and never combine them…” as ...

Case 1 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Limit of the answer in “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: “Record the o...

Case 11 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Limit of the answer in “Reference management: distinguish primary and second...

Case 37 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sam...

Case 30 — Comparing laboratory methods across years · source wording exercise Method note for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: use “Do not...

Case 13 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion Summary draft for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion”: the ans...

State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...

The final note should distinguish corrected data transcription, changed source evidence and revised interpretation. Preserve that distinction in subse...

Case 17 — A correction log for an archive article Identify the original error and the corrected text, date the correction and link the source. Keep th...

Expand it on first use and name the discipline and source context. Add a cross-reference for alternate meanings rather than assuming that every histor...