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Well I read the document in its entirety, and I'm still a little unclear as to what the authors' specific point was. Perhaps a clearly articulated thesis statem
by cef 11y ago
Well I read the document in its entirety, and I'm still a little unclear as to what the authors' specific point was. Perhaps a clearly articulated thesis statement might have helped.
- Aloha 11y agoI found the diagram on page 3 enlightening.
- Amorymeltzer 11y agoI know we're all joking here, but the final figure (last page) intrigued me. I generally read the X-axis first but this would have you read the Y-axis first. Is that something people generally do, or were the authors going for a left-to-right consistency?
- JoshTriplett 11y agoIn this case, almost certainly left-to-right consistency. But depending on the diagram, sometimes you do care more about the Y axis than the X axis; I wouldn't say I have a consistent reading order between the two, though generally I'll look at the diagram caption first. For the graphed data itself, I suspect people do tend to pay more attention to the Y axis, and more specifically to the extremes; the results in most papers tend to talk about those extremes (with the exception of the rare graph that highlights consistency across a range of results). Given that, it makes sense to check the scale for "how high" or "how low" first, and then check "by varying what".