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j.mwangiTL4 Moderator10 Mar 2025#1

Community wiki post. Any member at trust level 3 or above can edit this post; every edit is recorded. Last edited by hana.sato on 14 Jul 2025.

30 May 2025 — j.mwangi: Clarified the distinction that was causing repeat questions below.
12 Jul 2025 — mira.patel: Added the worked example and a unit label to the table header.
14 Jul 2025 — hana.sato: Replaced an unsourced figure with the published one and cited it.

Editors: j.mwangi, mira.patel, hana.sato

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Longitudinal self-reports with the method stated. Scales, tape measures, and their error bars.

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Questions specific to progress reports, with the units and the context stated.
Reports and datasets, with the collection method stated.
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s.leclercTL4 Moderator20 Mar 2025#2

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Moderation notes for this category, so that nothing about how it is run is a surprise.

Topics get moved into and out of here regularly. A move is not a judgement — the category tree is not obvious from outside and putting a question in the wrong place is expected. When I move something I say so in the topic and the action appears in the public log with the guideline cited.

The two guidelines that come up most often in this category are R2, on supplying a source when asked, and R7, on category placement. Neither is used punitively.

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t.steenkampTL2Member26 Mar 2025#3

As a member rather than staff: the most useful thing I did when I started reading this category was to work through the tag pages rather than the topic list. The topic list shows you what is recent. The tags show you what is settled.

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a.norgaardTL2 Moderator1 Apr 2025#4

Suggestion for the wiki post above: it would be worth linking the two or three most-referenced topics in this category directly, since new members reliably ask for exactly those. Happy to make the edit myself if nobody objects, with a revision note.

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h.nwosuTL2 Moderator7 Apr 2025#5

Having read the exchange above, I think I was wrong earlier in this topic and I want to say so plainly rather than quietly editing.

The correction was fair and I had been repeating something I had not checked carefully enough.

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