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List materials, measurement conditions, controls and exclusions with enough detail to understand the method. Keep this as research documentation and d...
Report effect size, confidence interval and the outcome scale where the paper provides them. Statistical significance alone does not establish practic...
Case 33 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise A collection of forum reports is being treated as a representative ...
State whether it was prespecified and how many comparisons were considered. Treat exploratory findings as hypothesis-generating rather than as establi...
Case 5 — Reading an abstract without skipping the methods Summary draft for “Reading an abstract without skipping the methods”: the answer addresses “...
Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.
Clarification for “Research figure captions: tell the reader what was measured”: the point beginning “Describe the measurement, population or model,…”...
Case 22 — Correlation in a small observational dataset Summary draft for “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: the answer addresses “Report ...
Limit of the answer in “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: “Individual decisions belong with a qualified clinician who…” is an excerpt from...
Separate document provenance, identity, purity and the conditions measured. A percentage without its method and sample linkage cannot establish all of...
Case 45 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise A result is described only as statistically significant. Wha...
Case 19 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample Correction note for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample”: retain the wording begi...
Case 39 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation · source wording exercise The same abbreviation has different meanings in neighbourin...
Case 20 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication Clarification for “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: the point beginning “Link both vers...