The most important thing
I get asked a lot about critical appraisal (i.e. how to read a research paper). I have never had a good answer because it’s not a single skill, but the convergence of many skills coming together to help you understand what someone else has done in their experiment and how that applies to both the actual question they answered and the context in which that answer fits in the larger context of the field in which they are doing the work. Read More...