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Eight digits after the decimal place?

Sholto David@sholtodavid.bsky.social

Absolutely brutal: Over four years in review with Nature. Still published with a copy and paste error between experimental groups. Checked everything but the raw data I suppose. pubpeer.com/publications...

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Sholto David

@sholtodavid.bsky.social

It's a ratio between heart and bodyweight. I think the decimal precision is meaningless but not a problem.

Eloquent Séance (Prof. David Skulltz) 💀

@eloquentscience.com

Yes, meaningless, but I think presenting such tables in papers indicates one of two things. 1. The authors just pasting their Excel default values into a paper and not thinking about effective science communication. 2. The authors burying weak statistical relationships by showing 8 decimal values.

Valentin Rodionov

@arbitraryeffect.bsky.social

Gold standard science!