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http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-5746
Authors: | Erdogan, Betül R. Vollert, Jan Michel, Martin C. |
Title: | Choice of y-axis can mislead readers |
Online publication date: | 6-May-2021 |
Year of first publication: | 2020 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | Using two examples from the non-scientific literature, we show how choice of unit of measure and scaling of y-axis can caused a biased perception of data, a phenomenon we propose to call perception bias. We recommend to pre-specify unit of measure or how it will be determined, whether outcome variables will be shown as absolute or relative/normalized changes, and to typically start y-axis at 0 for ratio variables. |
DDC: | 610 Medizin 610 Medical sciences |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 09 Chemie, Pharmazie u. Geowissensch. |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-5746 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
License: | CC BY |
Information on rights of use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Journal: | Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology 393 |
Pages or article number: | 1769 1772 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Publisher place: | Berlin u.a. |
Issue date: | 2020 |
ISSN: | 1432-1912 |
Publisher URL: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00210-020-01926-x |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1007/s00210-020-01926-x |
Appears in collections: | JGU-Publikationen |
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