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Another #rstats post - what are your favourite examples when teaching students to think critically about data/figures and interpretations?
For example, Simpson's Paradox and the importance of considering important subpopulations - is brilliantly displayed in the Palmer Penguins dataset.
A negative relationship between bill length and depth in penguins
A positive relationship between bill length and depth when we also consider there are three separate species of penguins in our dataset
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in reply to PhilipLeftwich

Ben Longdon
Ben Longdon
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this is nice for illustrating pseudo-replication (which students seem to really struggle to grasp)! I try and do something similar when teaching comparative method (ie clades not pop's) using some Anolis body size data (left) then some simulated data for a couple of other traits. This penguin data might be a nice introduction to this -would you mind sharing your code for the two plots? Thanks!!!
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