jep-evidence-without-equations

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jep-evidence-without-equations --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Evidence Without Equations (jep-evidence-without-equations) ## When to trigger - You need to convince a reader of a finding without a regression table in the body - The draft leans on "significant at the 1% level" or coefficient dumps to make its case - You have many numbers and aren't sure which few to feature - You worry that going light on math will make the evidence look soft ## The JEP evidence bar JEP communicates evidence through **intuition, well-chosen numbers, and honest caveats**, not through equations and estimation tables in the body. The credibility comes from *which* evidence you feature, *how clearly* you convey magnitude, and *how honestly* you state limits — not from displaying machinery. A JEP reader should finish a paragraph knowing the *size* of an effect, *how sure* the field is, and *what could be wrong*. ## How to present evidence credibly with little math - **Lead with magnitude in plain units.** "Roughly a third of the cost is passed through to prices" beats a coefficient. Translate elasticities/log points into amounts a reader feels (dollars, percentage points, days). - **Pick a few load-bearing numbers.** Two or three vivid, well-sourced figures land;