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[–] 194 points 6 months ago (10 children)

I feel unable to judge without seeing the actual table.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah.

    I usually colour code tables to draw attention to key areas.

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  • [–] 101 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Here is a colored chart of all my favorite colors:

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Why do you hate UV and infrared?

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not a shrimp 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well, rainbow tables are really valuable in certain disciplines, just not those rainbow tables

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Seeing "Why!" makes my brain angry lol

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    A friend once received an email riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors from her boss that critiqued her (appropriate) use of exclamation points. Specifically, that appearing cheerful was not professional.

    Some people just like to be miserable.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Not using colors in scientific writing is discarding a valuable information channel and therefore inefficient. When you are already limited in the allowed word count, this can speed up conveying information and reduce cognitive strain on readers (and possibly yourself). So it's a win-win.

    This should not end in chaos though, where colours are more confusing than helpful.

    The times when we had to print out each and every single page on a crappy black/white office printer are luckily becoming more and more a thing of the past. So even this is no longer a good reason to not use colours.

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago

    There's nothing wrong with rainbow tables. Printing them sounds a bit excessive, though.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    I've only ever been academia adjacent and I'm glad. Some of the most soulless people I've ever met. It's the lab grunts who know how to party. Until they have the life sucked out of them to meet some arbitrary writing spec for a journal

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago

    Faith, what are you doing? Rainbow Tables are for the CS class!

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I’m beginning to think Faith shouldn’t have chosen higher education.

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Because it can't accept her avant garde use of color to facilitate learning? Because Faith is ahead of her time? Because she is a pioneer?

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago

    Haven't been able to locate the definitive source, but there are several of these out there with Faith and Professor Kutaywa.

    Believe it originates somewhere on LinkedIn, but very rare for a LinkedIn meme to escape the platform.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I understand that colors can color, heh, our perceptions but being a primarily visual animal means that we can digest information much quicker through color.

    Without seeing the charts, I can’t say if the Prof is just being a curmudgeon or not.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Clearly fake - no-one puts first supervisor in their email signature!

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    My masters thesis advisor would not let us use the word "that". In his defense, 90%+ of the time, it's useless filler and can be left out

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You’d hope a professor would understand capitalisation. I know in real life that many don’t though.

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    [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Ah the heady experience of a virgin clown-sighting. We all remember. Bring on the rainbows, Little Bobby Tables.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    God forbid women have hobbies.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

    the context is all there ... Faith is a graduate student working on their masters thesis, in the thesis paper they included tables that they presumably color-coded (maybe different columns had different colors), and they used multiple colors such that it was "rainbow colored".

    Apparently the thesis advisor did not like the presence of color and advises using APA guidelines on how to style & format the tables: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures/tables

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Interestingly your link doesn't mention use of color or lack there of. It does say elsewhere that you shouldn't do it for decoration, though.

    That said, things like this are more dictated by the journal you publish to and a thesis has to imitate that. Solution? Graduate and start a journal that requires beautiful color tables, lol

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor

    I have heard horror stories about how specific formatting has to be for a thesis or dissertation, though - and often those rules are very specific to a particular university or even department. So it's also possible for rules like that to be local and not from a universal standard like the APA guide.

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