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Oh wow didn’t realize from the headline it was a literal uppercase Tee character being used that’s pretty funny (from my perspective)
by dieselgate 4y ago
Oh wow didn’t realize from the headline it was a literal uppercase Tee character being used that’s pretty funny (from my perspective)
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- OJFord 4y agoI wonder if/how quickly it would have been noticed with a 'better' font? The serifs give it away don't they? The space as it floats over the bar a close second. If it was some font that looked like a normal error bar, a pretty crap font for proper use probably, just two perpendicular lines, the only clue being that they were all the same size...
- lxgr 4y agoShowing up in a text search for "T" would probably also be a bad sign.
- shagie 4y agoThe serifs certainly are a dead giveaway, however, there is different amounts of spacing between the top of the bar and the bottom of the character. Additionally, the gray one is visibility off center even in the small image - I'm sure the other ones too. If they just did an 'add error bars' to Excel and had them be any value, it wouldn't have been discovered (well, that wouldn't have been the issue - the other issues with lack of data and such still would have been present).
- crazygringo 4y agoSeriously, I can't stop laughing at this. At least most junk science that gets submitted is done by people who are smart enough to make a chart in Excel. But when authors don't even know how to put actual falsified error bars (of different sizes) into a chart and just draw identical letter T's on top instead... the incompetence doesn't even seem that criminal anymore, just comical. Like a bank robber using a banana instead of a gun. (The journal not catching this before publishing it, however... yikes. Nothing funny there.)
- shitlord 4y agoI'm convinced this guy was just trolling, similar to the Sokal hoax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair