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Keep the original reported values beside any reformatted presentation. A conversion or interpretation needs a documented basis; it should not silently...

Case 49 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · comparison exercise Method note for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”:...

Use separate entries for the internal transcription correction and the publisher notice. They have different sources and may affect different claims.

Method note for “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: use “Link both versions, record dates and check whether…” as a row heading in a proposed ...

Case 39 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · source wording exercise A table has been copied into a new format without...

Case 17 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and ret...

Method note for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: use “Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion…” as...

Limit of the answer in “Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together”: “Make synthetic examples explicit and never combine them…” ...

Method note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: use “Identify population, design, comparator, outcome…” as a row heading in a prop...

List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail to understand the method. Keep this as research documentation and d...

Create separate columns for the quantity measured, method, units and denominator. Do not subtract the two percentages as though they represented a dis...