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Case 32 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise A collection of forum reports is being treated as a representative ...
Case 34 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication · source wording exercise Method note for “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: use “Public...
Case 41 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise Method note for “Data provenance: keep source, tr...
Case 32 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Two laboratories, two per...
Case 223 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · source wording exercise A review cites another review for a claim about a...
Case 9 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Locate the primary study and confirm that it measured the claimed outcome. Re...
Method note for “A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation”: use “State the study design and what was actually measured…” as a row ...
Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not identify direction or causation, and exploratory results n...
Method note for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: use “Discuss who chose to post, missing outcomes, unverifiable records…” as a row he...
Describe the species, model and outcome actually studied. Differences in biology and study conditions limit translation; the finding is not a clinical...
Case 25 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “An evidence table with room for negative...
Case 27 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise A strong abstract conclusion is being discussed without the study...
Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.