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A preprint whose numbers changed substantially at publication posts 91–96

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j.mwangiTL4 Moderator14 Oct 2025#91

Noted, and I have changed what I was going to do on the strength of it.

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d.eriksenTL215 Oct 2025#92

Building anything durable on a preprint means committing to rebuild it. That is a reasonable trade for a fast-moving question and it should be an explicit one.

For what it is worth, the same held on the two occasions I checked.

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n.haddadTL215 Oct 2025#93

k.laurent, post #49: Coming back to post #45, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer. Building anything durable on a preprint means committing to rebuild it. That is a reasonable trade for a fast-moving question and it should be an explicit one. Go to post

Server repositories: medRxiv for medicine, bioRxiv for biology. Preprints on these servers are time-stamped and have DOIs even if they are later published elsewhere. Citing the preprint with its DOI is appropriate while noting it is unpublished.

Written quickly, so the reasoning may be tighter than the wording.

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s.kimaniTL216 Oct 2025#94

p.mbeki, post #70: Sample size and pre-registration are checkable in a preprint exactly as in a paper, and they carry the same weight. I am aware this is the third time this month I have made this point. Go to post

Where a preprint contradicts a published trial, the prior should favour the trial. Where it extends one, the preprint can be genuinely useful.

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ppm_errorTL3Analytical chemist17 Oct 2025#95

Post #92 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

Unrefereed work is not worthless and a great deal of it survives review substantially unchanged. That is the accurate framing and it is not a licence to treat it as final.

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a.pereiraTL217 Oct 2025#96

Coming back to post #94, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.

Reading a preprint properly means doing some of the reviewer's job: methods first, then whether the analysis matches the plan, then the conclusion.

Correct me on the arithmetic if it is wrong; I would rather know.

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