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Case 23 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. R...

Case 42 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Certificate of analysi...

Case 16 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion A reader asks whether an experimental finding should change their treatment. What is an appropri...

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...

Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record its date and reassess claims that relied on the paper. Do not leave the historical citation look...

Clarification for “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together”: the point beginning “Keep the source citation, retrieval date an...

Case 7 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Limit of the answer in “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: “Report...

Case 54 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation · comparison exercise Limit of the answer in “A literature note that separates ...