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Use when presenting empirical or theoretical evidence credibly in a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article with minimal math — intuition, examples, well-chosen numbers, and honest caveats. Handles how evidence is conveyed in prose; defer figures/tables to jep-exhibits-for-general-readers and fairness across studies to jep-balance-and-objectivity.

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# 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
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