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I'm on your site, and read that section, and it does not tell me what the difference between a 5 and a 15 is. If you want users, don't make them read the paper
by curi 19y ago
I'm on your site, and read that section, and it does not tell me what the difference between a 5 and a 15 is. If you want users, don't make them read the paper itself to find out. In other words, it's not obvious what units the numbers are in.
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Tried reading paper. Still not sure. It looks like you picked an equation that divides the scores into 6 sections. the top one being 15-90 and the rest much smaller ranges. i don't understand why that division maps to "high impact" etc terms, nor still precisely what that is supposed to mean. but there's a footnote:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5865/948?ijkey=.QBRU7cadgPCc&keytype=ref&siteid=sci#REF17 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/319/5865/948?ijke...
17. Materials and methods are available as supporting material on Science Online.
in those materials, i find a chart saying the top section means > 90% degraded ocean. so ... does that mean 90% of the water there has turned to sludge? 90% of the animals are dead? something like that? if so, that's plenty easy to understand and could be made more prominent.
- scw 19y agoCuri, thanks for the helpful advice. I'll update the page to clarify the process and what the numbers mean. The numbers themselves are unitless; they represent the cumulative impact level from all threats combined. What degradation means and how it effects our map should be illustrated, likely in a simple conceptual diagram showing how the color classification maps onto coral states.