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Case 11 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Method note for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: use “Record the ori...
Case 14 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? Use a comparison-status column: directly comparable, comparable with s...
Case 3 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources A review cites another review for a claim about an experiment. How can the ev...
Clarification for “A correction log for an archive article”: the point beginning “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” belongs t...
Case 8 — Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support? A chromatographic peak-area figure and net material content answer differ...
Limit of the answer in “A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation”: “Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid translating…” i...
Case 2 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Clarification for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly”: the point be...
Clarification for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: the point beginning “Expand it on first use and name the…” belongs to the ...
Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction and the publisher notice. They have different sources and may affect different claims.
Case 25 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive · source wording exercise A cited article now has an editorial notice. How should the a...
Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...
Case 11 — Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible A subgroup finding was not the primary planned analysis. How should it be summarised? ...
Case 21 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: retain the wording ...