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The labeling on those axes is horrific. A human is apparently about 7 units of "Large" on the "Size" axis, and can piss around 110 units of "Jet" on the "Shape" axis.
What is 7 units of Large Size you wonder? Fuck you. What is 110 units of Jet Shape you ask? Hell if we know. You sure aren't going to.
What are all the unlabeled dots? Who cares. Sample size? "I saw one do it."
Also not to forget according to this a cow is more than 10 times as large as a human
And a bit smaller than a dog, slightly larger than a cat.
Did these scientist observe and document a pissing toddler?
With one data point as sample size, it could have been a baby, a huge bodybuilder or anything. Same goes for the ~~human~~ cow. None of this is reliable data and we shouldn't even discuss it here.
Considering the human here is smaller than a dog and slightly larger than a cat, they apparently picked this subject up at a kindergarten.
Lol didn't even see that! :D
I mean, humans are about 150 or 200 freedom units, and various breeds of cow weigh 10x that or more
I feel like the three humans and dozens of cicadas are probably skewing the results as well.
The axes are terrible, I agree.
And I think they managed to confuse a bear for a dog - so kudos to the fieldworker for going out and measuring the bear piss.
But it'd be quite rare for every datapoint on a scatterplot to be individually labelled - in fact if they all can be clearly labelled the sample is on the small side.
The cicada conclusion seems very weakly supported without a better sample for other subgroups. But a more general conclusion about the whole sample like larger insects and mammals tend to do more of whatever Y is, does have some support in this data.
I'm guessing there were three authors on this study, based on the "human" dots
All of them exactly 5 large, but with pee between 20 and 80 jetty.
I wonder which author has the Mastiff
Mastiff been the biggest of the three authors.
how are we quantising water shape (droplet vs jet)? Is it amount of pee generated/unit amount of time or something similar?
Pretty wild that a bee pisses stronger than a bat
Reminds me of a school trip to a zoo when I was young where every animal relieved themselves while we were watching. It became a running joke. The elephant was my favorite.
I guess I didn't notice any cicada pee last time. The air was so thick with them it was affecting everybody's mental health though. If i had noticed pee i would've just assumed it was a hallucination
That cicada is one massive fucker, I get why the wee-wee is strong in this one.
It's actually about as Small as a cow is Large, according to this graph.
The strongest urinators are cicadas, but there's other animals that score higher on the Jet Shape? I guess ~100 Jet Shape must be peak then and everything higher than that is actually a weaker form of urination.
Edit: the labeled dot is only one of many cicadas and some of them score as low as 1.
I could piss stronger than a cicada.
Cicadas have nothing on the spotted lantern fly.
You want something disgusting and pisser of the animal kingdom pick the one that makes it look like it's pouring only under trees, and it attracts wasps.