alt Hacker NewsThis is a textbook example of how not to label and caption figures within a scientific publication.
The caption for each figure should completely describe the information being shown. In this case, they have a Time axis with numbers but no indication of what units of time are being represented, or what is meant by time '0'.
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luqtas • last Saturday at 9:34 PM
are you those smart geeks who check for images and read a paragraph of the conclusion?
because i think the graph makes complete sense by checking the methodology... which i'll save your time: 18 years and ~ 16,000 participants
The graphs are, in fact, utter BS. They don't really match the method described in the "analytical approach" section particularly well.
The real conclusions are in Table 2. "Pet ownership" is barely "statistically significant" (yeah, I know...) there. Tables 3, 4, and 5 should be similar but as a whole things are kind of all over the place.
It's not a strong paper.