RESULTS from SURVEY: How bad was that Science cover and do you care?

Apparently, that Science cover was pretty bad and plenty of people cared.

I got 75 responses in time to make the above figure (where the width of the blocks are proportional to the number of responses in each category)- 80% said the cover image was either very or kind of poorly chosen and 55% said they cared at least a little bit. The colored “lines” between the two answers depict how frequently two answers were chosen together and clicking the image will make it bigger. Thanks to everyone who gave me their 2 cents – such science. such wow.

8 comments on “RESULTS from SURVEY: How bad was that Science cover and do you care?”

Jeremy Yoder says:

31 July 2014 at 10:24

I am totally going to steal that graph format! Is that generated in R? (He asked hopefully.)

Sarah Hird says:

31 July 2014 at 10:57

i’d seen the format before but had no idea what it was called (anyone? bueller?) and had so little data, i did it by hand. however, i feel that there must be a way to do it in R. right? maybe someone out there knows…
- Jeremy Yoder says:
  
  31 July 2014 at 11:00
  
  This sounds like an excuse for me to spend a day writing a custom function! After I finish nailing down bits of this grant proposal, maybe …

Chris Smith says:

31 July 2014 at 10:50

It’s always worrying to me when I review summaries of survey data in which I am one of the respondents, and I can see my own data point. Outlier once again.

Sarah Hird says:

31 July 2014 at 11:18

sounds like you need to hear this, chris: http://tinyurl.com/ch7exgf
- Chris Smith says:
  
  31 July 2014 at 11:29
  
  Huh? The url sends me to someone’s blog in dutch with pictures of women’s fashion…?
- Sarah Hird says:
  
  31 July 2014 at 12:15
  
  oops. link fail. corrected above. (but – we’ve definitely exceeded a reasonable effort to reward ratio at this point, so don’t be too disappointed.)