Practice quiz: Reading like a researcher

4 questions. Pick an answer to see if it is right. You can try as many times as you like. These are for practice: the final test has different questions.

1. 1.Which of these is a claim, not a topic?

   This paper is about medical imaging.Data augmentation reduces error on chest X-ray classification by 3 points compared with no augmentation.We study neural networks.Robustness is important.
2. 2.Where is the main claim of a paper most often stated?

   In the referencesAt the end of the introduction, often as a list of contributionsIn the acknowledgementsOnly in the title
3. 3.Reading an abstract backwards means starting with...

   the titlethe result, then asking how they knowthe author listthe problem statement
4. 4.A paper says 'we prove' but shows one small experiment. What should you think?

   It is provenThe strength word is bigger than the evidence: a warning signExperiments are better than proofsNothing, wording does not matter