T's instead of error bars

[shpalman]

A paper used capital T's instead of error bars

[IvanV]

Thank you. I think I have never seen something that comes quite so blatantly and obviously into the category of cargo cult science. I remember first coming across the term on this forum, and having to think carefully about what it might mean. For all my interest in pseudoscience, I had never seen that term before, and presumed the poster must have made it up. I was very impressed when I realised what a nice distinction it was. But it was apparently first used by Richard Feynmann, and deserves to be better known.

[monkey]

I wanted to do a joke about a t-test, but I read the article and it had already been done.

[Bird on a Fire]

Thoroughly depressing.

Using a bar chart to plot a distribution of data is f.cking stupid. Plot the actual data, or at least a violin or box plot or something.

[dyqik]

Thoroughly depressing.

Using a bar chart to plot a distribution of data is f.cking stupid. Plot the actual data, or at least a violin or box plot or something.

Violin plots are best, because they display the actual distribution, and inevitably look a bit Georgia O'Keeffe.

[Bird on a Fire]

Might start calling them O'Keeffe plots

[nekomatic]

ReTracTed

[jimbob]

Thoroughly depressing.

Using a bar chart to plot a distribution of data is f.cking stupid. Plot the actual data, or at least a violin or box plot or something.

Violin plots are best, because they display the actual distribution, and inevitably look a bit Georgia O'Keeffe.

I tend to prefer normalised probability plots, but yes.

I have converted about half my colleagues to those.

[Bird on a Fire]

There is an R package for everything, now including correctly fitting Ts as error bars, via the wonderfully named geom_terrorbar() function:

https://mival.netlify.app/blog/2023/01/ ... terrorbar/