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Case 7 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion Clarification for “Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion”: the poin...

State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...

Case 22 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources Summary draft for “Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary s...

Case 13 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured Describe the measurement, population or model, units and uncertainty shown. Inte...

Case 16 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? An apparent difference can motivate a method question without proving ...

Limit of the answer in “Exploratory subgroup analysis: keep the label visible”: “Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather…” is an ex...

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

Case 39 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Reading an abstract without skipping the ...

Case 25 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication · source wording exercise Limit of the answer in “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: “Pub...

Case 36 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation · source wording exercise Clarification for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguou...

Case 11 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured Method note for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: u...

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