As a scientist you do know the red bar is the average with the blue bars as the high and low values... And the high and low values are discarded. LOL jokers, the study is from mit where did you go to school.
Originally Posted by
dr_lha
I'm a scientist (Astrophysics to be precise) and I love looking at stuff like this, especially for the red-flags and supposed "trends" that aren't there. For example, take a look at this page:
Those three graphs show a supposed "trend", but the blue lines are the errors in the measurement. Not only do they deceive by scaling the graphs from not-zero show the maximum apparent difference, but if you believe their error analysis is correct, the fact is that all three of those graphs show no measurable differences between any of the frame materials in any of the tests.