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A well-designed study with a badly written abstract — does this still hold?

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Reporting bias within a paper — a result in a figure that is absent from the abstract — is checkable and is worth checking when the claim matters. The reasoning is more useful than the number, which is why I have shown it.

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e.ndiayeTL229 Sep 2024#1

A well-designed study with a badly written abstract — does this still hold? I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below.

Asking about well-designed study on behalf of the question I keep seeing asked badly, including by me.

Framed properly it is answerable. Framed the usual way it is not, and that is most of why the previous threads went nowhere.

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crossover_entryTL3Regular26 Oct 2024#2

Building on the opening post rather than restating it.

Small methodological point on well-designed study: repeating a measurement is cheap and resolves most of what is being argued about here at no cost to anyone.

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k.adeyemiTL2 Solution16 Nov 2024 · edited#3

Reporting bias within a paper — a result in a figure that is absent from the abstract — is checkable and is worth checking when the claim matters.

The reasoning is more useful than the number, which is why I have shown it.

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