<p>I occasionally come across a question that is poorly or awkwardly written, perhaps because the author doesn't speak English natively. How far am I allowed to go in editing the question?</p>

<ul>
<li>Should I make as few changes as necessary?</li>
<li>Or may I maximize clarity by heavily rewriting the question?</li>
</ul>

<p>For example, may I replace:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>In one task that measures the times that participants take to respond to each item of a task some of the response times were considered outliers as they are more than 3SD above the mean of the participants' responses.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>With something like:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>In an experiment measuring response times, I observed several outliers more than three standard deviations above the mean.</p>
</blockquote>
