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“Hahaha the act of moving without going anywhere is very enjoyable”

- The slug

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128 points

Graph break makes it look a lot closer than it is.

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45 points

OK, but still, that slug was on that exercise wheel way more than anyone would expect a slug to be on one of those things

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34 points

How so? I am but a peasant farmer and know little of the interpretation of graphs

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90 points

the graph for mice on the left has a break between .10 and .80. see the little squiggly thing? if that break was not there, the mice bar would be wayyyy higher than the other bars.

I don’t think it’s meant to be misleading.

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38 points

I don’t think it’s meant to be misleading.

Have to disagree. These particular researchers have a long history of pro-slug bias - at any cost.

Where will it end?

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31 points

Oooooh shit yeah it really does make it look a little closer that it was! Still, nice to know the mice (and occasional frog etc) were having a nice time

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It looks to me as if 0.10 to 0.80 takes up as much vertical space as 0.01 to 0.02. They “yadda yadda‘d” the middle values because mouse was the only one that went that high.

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They chopped out the middle section of the chart, so slugs actually look 12x larger than they should. In fact, all the other bars are 12x larger than they actually should be v

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Every farmer queues his cows up in one line. So there are several lines of cows. Now one rich farmer owns a lot more cows than the other, poor farmers.

Someone wants to make a photo from above and has a problem: Either the long lines of the rich guys cows wont fit in the picture or he has to zoom out so far that the short lines arent really visible anymore.

So now if you leave out a bunch of cows from the long line and add a indicator, that there are left out cows. The numbers on the left make it that it still is correct and readable altho the longest line/bar is shorter.

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This just reminds me that bumble bees will play with small wooden beads if they’re left out, mostly just rolling them about aimlessly and sometimes jumping on them because apparently they are amused by it rolling over with them on top of it.

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10 points

This is too cute, it can’t possibly be true. I demand pictures and videos!

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Thank you

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44 points

Is this running distance? That’s a completely unfair metric for the slug.

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28 points

Slugs to be you then, I guess. :P

In all seriousness, the graph shows different species as fraction of total uses recorded. Since the paper is mostly about mice, and behavioural differences under different circumstances, it being unfair to the slugs is probably not such a big deal here.

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I was just going to ask if someone would post the paper - thank you so much!

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