Research topic
Research literacy: reading claims carefully
How to tell a traditional belief from a practitioner method, a customer's experience, an experiment and established science — and how to spot overclaiming.
What the evidence is
This topic explains methods rather than reporting a result: blinding, control groups, sample size, placebo responses, publication bias, and why one small study is not proof.
Study summaries
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