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List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail to understand the method. Keep this as research documentation and d...
Correction note for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: retain the wording beginning “Interpretive discussion belongs along...
State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...
Case 1 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Clarification for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: the point beginning “I...
Case 36 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion · source wording exercise Method note for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-met...
Case 16 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat expl...
Limit of the answer in “A correction log for an archive article”: “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” is an excerpt from the d...
Case 40 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation · source wording exercise Reader check for “A literature note that separates hy...
Case 15 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support i...
Method note for “Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support?”: use “Separate document provenance, identity, purity and…” as a ...
Case 41 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Two laboratories, two per...
Method note for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion”: use “List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with e...
Case 12 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Summary draft for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary s...