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Case 50 — Animal evidence and the limits of translation · comparison exercise Reader check for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: distin...
Case 18 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Correction note for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: retain the wording ...
State the study design and what was actually measured before discussing the proposed mechanism. Keep speculation explicitly labelled and avoid transla...
Case 52 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · comparison exercise Two figures use different units and one axis is logarithmic. How sh...
Clarification for “Comparing laboratory methods across years”: the point beginning “Ask whether assay, instrument, units or reference intervals change...
Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and retain the original values. Do not compare apparent visual dista...
Case 26 — Clinical questions in an archive discussion · source wording exercise Reader check for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: distin...
Limit of the answer in “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: “Report sample size, potential confounders…” is an excerpt from the discussion,...
Case 34 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation · source wording exercise Method note for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous ...
Limit of the answer in “Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result?”: “Retain units, method, laboratory interval and collection c...
Case 9 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Limit of the answer in “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: “Record the o...
Case 19 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides...
Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.