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A disputed threshold in a published explainer

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✓StatisticsAll 41 reported p-values match their test statistics and degrees of freedom.

!StatisticsTable 2: n = 18 sites in the text, 17 in the model output. One site appears to be dropped without explanation.

✓Data availabilityDataset deposited (Zenodo), opens, and matches the variables in the methods.

×CodeAnalysis script fails at line 212: a package version isn’t pinned. 2 of 3 figures reproduced after fixing it.

!ReportingField-study checklist 7 of 8: site selection criteria aren’t stated.

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