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Case 1 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample A collection of forum reports is being treated as a representative sample. What limitations be...

Separate document provenance, identity, purity and the conditions measured. A percentage without its method and sample linkage cannot establish all of...

Correction note for “A correction log that survives the next archive update”: retain the wording beginning “Use separate entries for the internal tran...

Case 51 — An evidence table with room for negative findings · comparison exercise Summary draft for “An evidence table with room for negative findings...

Case 51 — Data provenance: keep source, transformation and output together · comparison exercise Reader check for “Data provenance: keep source, trans...

Case 26 — A correction log for an archive article · source wording exercise A transcription error changes the units in a figure caption. How should th...

Clarification for “A correction log for an archive article”: the point beginning “Identify the original error and the corrected text, date…” belongs t...

Clarification for “Clinical questions in an archive discussion”: the point beginning “Explain the study’s scope and limitations without…” belongs to t...

Case 47 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reading a preclinical paper: w...

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

Correction note for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation”: retain the wording beginning “Expand it on first use and name the…” in t...

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