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> I even called out a fellow postdoc for using a line graph when he should have used a bar graph (In a moment of passion I called the incorrect usage f---ing re

> I even called out a fellow postdoc for using a line graph when he should have used a bar graph (In a moment of passion I called the incorrect usage f---ing retarded... That's an overreaction for a small error, don't you think? Not to mention unconstructively critical and unnecessarily antagonistic. Definitely not something I'd want to see coming from faculty.

dnautics 13y ago
Your biases are showing. Said postdoc is a very good friend and the delivery was not confrontational although perhaps surprising to the senior scientists. Data presentation is not a small error. A line graph implies a quantitative relationship between the ordinates in the independent variable, which did not exist in this case. And antagonism is not bad in science. Its certainly better than fealty or consensus.