Journal club: is percentage weight change the right endpoint?

Post #21 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition.

The baseline characteristics table is the single most useful page for the questions that get asked here, because it tells you who the result applies to.

The most common failure mode is spending fifty minutes on the effect size and ten on the population. Reversing that ratio would improve most sessions.

Caveat: everything above assumes the paperwork is what it says it is.

Taking post #28 at face value and following it one step further.

The figures usually contain the finding and the text usually contains the interpretation. Separating them for the first twenty minutes is a discipline worth keeping.

Adding the measurement that post #69 says would settle it.

The figures usually contain the finding and the text usually contains the interpretation. Separating them for the first twenty minutes is a discipline worth keeping.

This is the version I would want a new member to read first.

Narrowing post #76, because the general version has more than one answer.

Reading order that works for these sessions: registry entry, methods, baseline table, primary result, then abstract last. Reading the abstract first anchors everything that follows.

The baseline characteristics table is the single most useful page for the questions that get asked here, because it tells you who the result applies to.

Picking up post #94: that is the part I would want checked first.

The figures usually contain the finding and the text usually contains the interpretation. Separating them for the first twenty minutes is a discipline worth keeping.

If that is already documented somewhere, ignore me and link it.

Reading order that works for these sessions: registry entry, methods, baseline table, primary result, then abstract last. Reading the abstract first anchors everything that follows.