Category Archives: Data visualization

Sailing the sea of uncertainty

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Gordon

If one thing has changed my view of stats in the last couple of years, it has been using simulation to explore how they pan out for 10.000 studies. Using simulation is an approach that Daniël Lakens uses a lot … Continue reading →

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Scaling the brain: Is it dishonest to truncate your y-axis?

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Gordon

So, the other day I responded to a tweet by Felix Schönbrodt. He called out a tweet by GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften that showed data on life satisfaction in Germany from 2010 to 2016 without a y-axis (below left). … Continue reading →

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