Major comments Concerning methodological aspects: Since the probe calibration is very important for AFM measurements, authors should provide more details concerning this indispensable step.
Where uncertainty in methodological approaches within studies was found during the review process, direct email correspondence was made based on the corresponding author details to request additional details concerning the study to ensure full evidence was examined.
Our modeling approach is summarized in Supplemental Experimental Procedures, and all details concerning the mathematical properties of our model, its physiological plausibility, and statistical procedures for fitting can be found in previous methodological studies [ 6, 20 22].
Details concerning the database are in Methods.
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Concerns to address in a resubmission: The manuscript primarily requires some textual revisions to 'tone down' some of its more general claims and to elaborate on some of the methodological details. 1) The most substantive concern regarding the data is 'where is the rest of it?'.
See Methodology appendix on page 31 for full methodological details.
But the media repeatedly reported the concerns of this one man, generally without giving methodological details of the research, either because they found it too complicated, inexplicably, or because to do so would have undermined their story.
Methodological details are provided below.
The ethical codes of organizations like the American Association for Public Opinion Research mandate the disclosure of these sorts of methodological details upon request.
