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A real methods section, read out loud

Working through the methods of a real paper, a malaria vaccine delivered through routine immunization in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi, takes about fifteen minutes and leaves questions open. The comparison method stayed fuzzy on a first read, and several points needed the supplement. A first pass gives us the study's architecture: the design, who was compared with whom, which outcomes were chosen and why, and where bias could enter. The questions we cannot answer yet are the output of that pass, and we write them down.

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