Read this paper with me

A research paper whose abstract promises more than you suspect it delivers.

Work through this paper with me as a sceptical peer reviewer would.

1. **The question** the authors set out to answer, and whether the paper answers that question or a narrower one.
2. **What they did**: design, sample, measures, comparison group, in plain language.
3. **What they found**: effect sizes, not just significance. Tell me whether the effect is large enough to matter in practice.
4. **The gap between findings and claims.** Where does the discussion section say more than the results support?
5. **Threats to validity** ranked by how much they would change the conclusion.
6. **What would need to be true** for these results to generalise to my situation, which I will describe below.

Quote the paper for anything contested. Do not fill gaps from memory of related work.

Paper:


My situation:

Reading and synthesis. Getting the substance out of a document, and reconciling sources that do not quite agree.