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Case 45 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? · source wording exercise Clarification for “Two laboratories, two per...

Case 30 — Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive · source wording exercise Reader check for “Retractions and expressions of concern in a...

Case 51 — Assay-specific reference ranges: what must travel with a result? · comparison exercise Reader check for “Assay-specific reference ranges: wh...

Case 50 — Correlation in a small observational dataset · comparison exercise Reader check for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: distingu...

Case 15 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and ret...

Report sample size, potential confounders and measurement uncertainty. Association does not identify direction or causation, and exploratory results n...

Record the original units and axis transformation, show any conversion explicitly and retain the original values. Do not compare apparent visual dista...

Method note for “Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing?”: use “Do not subtract the two percentages as though they repre...

Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.