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There were those who tried to correct by image manipulation it but didn't take account of the right y-axis having tics every 100 instead of 50; the correct answer is of course to replot the data at the source:

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AMap.

And it took me a bit too long to see what the problem was

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jimbob wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:09 pm AMap.
And it took me a bit too long to see what the problem was
You're not alone at the most obvious map based one, but there are multiple other problems with the data, the colours, the groups ...
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Any ideas what it's actually trying to show? Even beyond the obvious problems with the southern continent, it looks like it's saying there's only one species of perching bird in most of North America.
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It's showing an example of a planet with between 0.5 and 1.5 perching birds in Upper Africa?
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Fishnut wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:09 pm Any ideas what it's actually trying to show? Even beyond the obvious problems with the southern continent, it looks like it's saying there's only one species of perching bird in most of North America.
It is possible that it's photoshopped (although the textbook does have lots of maps with overlapping bins

0-50, 50-100 etc
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This is a figure from a paper in Science Advances. They might well have found something out, but I haven't checked because it just looks like they're taking the piss to me.
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jimbob wrote: Mon Feb 06, 2023 11:07 am
Fishnut wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:09 pm Any ideas what it's actually trying to show? Even beyond the obvious problems with the southern continent, it looks like it's saying there's only one species of perching bird in most of North America.
It is possible that it's photoshopped (although the textbook does have lots of maps with overlapping bins

0-50, 50-100 etc
That's OK for continuous variables, where the edge of one bin is only infinitesimally distant from the next. But not for discrete values like "number of species".
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jimbob wrote: Mon Feb 13, 2023 10:21 pm https://twitter.com/shashj/status/16252 ... h_AcHicgUg

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Thanks to that, I've now got some idea of how big Nelson's Column is.
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JQH wrote: Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:57 pm How well does it fly?
Depends which direction you want it to fly in.

And how many pigeons you glue to it.
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