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by federalauth 865 days ago
What do you generally look for in the Methods section?
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Specific details about how the data collection and processing was done. For example in my field there were a lot of fussy details that if they were not handled correctly (and most people did not handle them correctly) would lead to false positives/false negatives.

If something is outside my area of expertise, then I have limited ability to judge a paper based on its methods.