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Table 1 Justifications provided for the final assessment rating by experts and potential users

From: Figure Interpretation Assessment Tool-Health (FIAT-health) 2.0: from a scoring instrument to a critical appraisal tool

Justifications provided by both experts and potential users

• The correctness of the methods

• Assumptions on which the model is based

• Match between the primary publication and the reported figure

• Transparency on the definition of the subject

• The conclusion that was made based on the results

• Previous knowledge of the subject

• Application of the figure in practice

• An extrapolation was made

• The geographical area the figure applies to

• It concerned an estimation

• No better figures are known about the subject

• Source of the figure

• Time period to which the figure relates

• Match between the population of the reported figure and the primary publication

• Generalization of the figure

• Interpretation of the journalist

• Difference in jargon between the primary publication and the reported figure

Justifications provided by potential users

• Credibility of the author

• Verifiability of the figure

• New information in the [publicly reported message]

Justifications provided by experts

• Method of modelling (the figure has no meaning as the expert considered the construct to be invalid)