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A chromatographic peak-area figure and net material content answer different questions. Record the report’s own definition and units before comparing ...
Case 24 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Summary draft for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: the answer addres...
Correction note for “Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing?”: retain the wording beginning “Create separate columns for...
Case 1 — An evidence table with room for negative findings Clarification for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: the point beginning ...
Case 39 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured · source wording exercise Correction note for “Research figure captions: tell th...
Case 19 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides...
Case 37 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise A strong abstract conclusion is being discussed without the study...
Correction note for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: retain the wording beginning “Report effect size, confidence interval and...
Case 40 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · source wording exercise Method note for “Certificate of analysis: whic...
Limit of the answer in “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: “Do not compare apparent visual distances…” is an excerpt from the discus...
Case 16 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication Correction note for “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: retain the wording beginning “Lin...
Case 22 — A correction log for an archive article A transcription error changes the units in a figure caption. How should the archive record be repair...
Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null findings, exclusions and limitations. Separate the authors’ interpretation from the table’s dir...
Case 186 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · reader check exercise Limit of the answer in “Units and scale: prevent a silent compar...
Describe the measurement, population or model, units and uncertainty shown. Interpretive discussion belongs alongside the evidence, not in place of it...