Refines exhibits in World Development manuscripts: replaces asterisk significance with confidence intervals, translates log points to percent, and ensures every table/figure answers a development question.
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- Tables report significance with asterisks instead of standard errors / confidence intervals
WD's readership is multidisciplinary and policy-facing, so exhibits must clear a higher legibility bar than in a specialist economics journal: a development scholar from another field, or an informed practitioner, should grasp the headline from the exhibit and its note alone. That changes priorities. Effect sizes in interpretable units beat starred coefficients; a clean figure beats a dense table; a well-built map or qualitative matrix can carry an argument that prose cannot.
***. WD's audience reads magnitudes, and asterisks invite dichotomous "significant/not" thinking that the journal's evidence culture resists.Qualitative WD papers should display evidence, not only narrate it. Use:
A table reports "0.18***" for a transfer program on consumption. The WD fix: report "0.18 (0.05)" and add a note — "an 18% increase relative to the control-group mean of 1,420 PPP$; clustered at the village level (N=86 clusters)." Better still, move it to a coefficient plot with the control-mean reference line, so a public-health reader sees the magnitude and its precision at a glance.
【Journal】World Development (WD)
【Skill】worlddev-tables-figures
【Verdict】reader-ready / revise
【Asterisks】removed; SEs/CIs present? [Y/N]
【Units】effects translated + benchmarked? [Y/N]
【Headline exhibit】figure / map carrying the main result
【Qual display】matrix / timeline / quote table present? [Y/N / n/a]
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实 / not asserted
【Next skill】worlddev-writing-style
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