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Case 47 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Reader check for “Reading a preclinical paper: what...
Method note for “A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation”: use “Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid translating…” as a...
State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...
Case 30 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Reading an abstract without skipping the metho...
Case 158 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · indexing exercise Reader check for “Data provenance: keep source, transf...
Case 30 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertaint...
Method note for “Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract?”: use “Put the species or model, design, comparator and…” as a row hea...
Case 42 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? · source wording exercise Method note for “Certificate of analysis: whic...
Method note for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: use “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals changed…” as a row headi...
Case 21 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? Clarification for “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a...
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...
Case 9 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible Limit of the answer in “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: “State ...
Case 19 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail t...
Limit of the answer in “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: “Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion…”...
Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a record of conversions or exclusions. Make synthetic examples explicit and never combine them silently w...