This is not a fair question! You can't judge one without the others.
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Replying to @synapse101
If you had to pick one thing tho - the key part of a study that you reckon defines it more than anything
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Replying to @GidMK
Nope, I refuse. Picking one makes a mockery of the process and is part of the reason why science communication and translation gets into a mess sometimes.
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Replying to @synapse101
Dunno. I'm not saying each element isn't important, but I reckon that the methods is key to everything. Without methods, it's just an opinion paper with some graphs
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Replying to @GidMK
but without results, what the point of any of it? and without intro there is no justification or understanding of the context, and a bad discussion can destroy everything else...
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Replying to @synapse101 @GidMK
I get that you are trying to make a point, but science is a process and all steps in the process matter. Having gold standard methods is useless if you can't communicate the results, context and interpretation.
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Replying to @synapse101 @GidMK
& a non-ideal method doesn't make results useless. You see this all the time in nutrition. Sometimes the ideal method doesn't exist for ubiquitous long term exposures, it doesn't mean we throw all the research in the bin, it means we have to consider the body of knowledge.
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Replying to @synapse101
I take your point - I don't think that any elements are unimportant, especially to communication. Proper context is vital if you want to interpret what's been done!
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Replying to @GidMK @synapse101
Also, I'm definitely not talking about the quality of the methods here - just being able to read and understand what actually happened in the study itself
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Replying to @GidMK
Then that even more means all of it is important. I get that you aren't saying less important means unimportant. But they are all important, what purpose does making a hierarchy of the importance serve?
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Makes putting the methods last (or, as I recently saw, in supplementary materials) a problem 
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Replying to @GidMK
So maybe a better survey is where do you think the methods should be placed? I don’t think the order convention currently implies rank.
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