PeptideChemSF said:

It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.

That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.

alex_tucson said:

Agreed, with a caveat about community reputation: it is a lagging indicator.

This is exactly what I could not find anywhere else.

PeptideChemSF said:

It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.

Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

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