Editing 2713: Data Point
Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
The edit can be undone.
Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
| Latest revision | Your text | ||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
| date = December 19, 2022 | | date = December 19, 2022 | ||
| title = Data Point | | title = Data Point | ||
| − | | image = | + | | image = data_point_2x.png |
| imagesize = 315x409px | | imagesize = 315x409px | ||
| noexpand = true | | noexpand = true | ||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
}} | }} | ||
| − | ==Explanation== | + | ==Explanation== |
| − | + | {{incomplete|Created by a REALLY COOL DATA POINT. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
| − | + | When scientific measurements are made, the conclusions are almost always based on many data points observed in relation to each other. The comic jokes that a single data point can somehow be of sufficient interest in isolation that the other data may be disregarded. In reality, a single datum can almost never represent what the information in the related data taken together indicate. | |
| − | This is most likely intended as | + | In this case the data point looks like a {{w|TIE fighter}} flying at you from the direction of the Sun. This is so cool that the entire focus of the scientific paper should be on this figure alone, as stated in the caption. [[Randall]] suggests this is a "science power move." |
| + | |||
| + | This is most likely intended as factitious satire, because the purpose of a chart or graph figure is to present multiple data which would be less clear than tabular or textual data, so there is never any reason to devote a figure to a single datum, regardless of its importance. It is could be a joke about papers which only highlight particularly interesting or significant data without including the background measurements or similar mundane information necessary to fully understand or reproduce the findings. While there are [https://www.aje.com/en/arc/data-not-shown-4-reasons-omit-figure-or-table/ accepted reasons for this practice,] it can be annoying when trying to follow an otherwise useful procedure or comparing aspects of the results the authors did not anticipate. | ||
The title text suggests relegating all the other data to supplementary materials, presumably to avoid detracting from the single "cool" datum. | The title text suggests relegating all the other data to supplementary materials, presumably to avoid detracting from the single "cool" datum. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
| − | + | :[A graph is shown. There are two axis with bullets up along the Y-axis and unreadable labels along the X-axis. There are no ticks on the axis. The graph itself is black with a round white center from where white lines "radiate" out in all directions, like a star or sun. In the center there is a single data point with symmetrical vertical error bars. Beneath the graph there are two lines of unreadable text to the left. To the right there is a rectangular box with a dot, representing the data point, and then an unreadable label. Above the graph there is a label:] | |
| − | :[A graph is shown. There are | ||
| − | |||
:Figure 2. | :Figure 2. | ||
