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Use when designing figures and tables for a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article aimed at a broad audience — clarity over density, self-explanatory exhibits. Handles exhibit design; defer prose evidence to jep-evidence-without-equations and overall structure to jep-narrative-arc.

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# Exhibits for General Readers (jep-exhibits-for-general-readers)

## When to trigger

- A figure or table was lifted straight from a research paper and is dense
- A reader needs the caption *and* the body text to decode an exhibit
- The piece has too many exhibits, or exhibits that don't advance the argument
- A regression table with coefficients and asterisks is doing the explaining

## The JEP exhibit bar

A JEP exhibit must be **self-explanatory to a non-specialist** and earn its place in the *argument*. Clarity beats density: the reader should grasp the point from the exhibit and its caption alone, in seconds, without parsing the methods. JEP avoids significance asterisks and coefficient-table presentation in favor of exhibits that *show the idea*.

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