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) |