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.
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Evidence · Journal club · continued
Journal club: FLOW and the renal composite, component by component posts 91–92
This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1.
h.eriksen, post #4: Sessions on negative or null results are consistently the most instructive and the hardest to get anyone to attend. I would rather say I do not know than round it up to an answer. Go to post
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.
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