NEUR 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Color Blindness, Neurophilosophy, Bar Chart
31 Mar 2017
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Decide if data should be displayed in a table or a graph: questions to consider: What is the total number of data points shown. If both independent and dependent variables are qualitative. Common in clinical papers to list baseline characteristics. May contain same information as a table, but captures the relationship at a glance. Both are useful for showing trends in data. Best for discrete variables and data where group means do not depend on each other. Best for continuous variables and plotting the change in dependent variable over time. 3 stars = 0. 001: no stars = p> 0. 05 (nit significant) or option to not show brackets at all. Black/white or grayscale: not too many colors! Using cyan-magenta instead of red-green so that those with red-green colour blindness can see data. Research is useless unless you communicate your findings. Collaborations help gain new ideas and share burden of tackling large research projects.
