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Case 43 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error · source wording exercise Summary draft for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison...

Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...

Case 1 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? A human-benefit claim needs appropriate human evidence. This preclinical note ...

Case 28 — Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured · source wording exercise A chart caption names a mechanism but omits the observ...

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

Summary draft for “Certificate of analysis: which claim does each measurement support?”: the answer addresses “Separate document provenance, identity,...

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

Case 4 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together Keep the source citation, retrieval date and a record of conversions or excl...