Here is a colored chart of all my favorite colors:
Why do you hate UV and infrared?
I’m not a shrimp 🤷♂️
I feel unable to judge without seeing the actual table.
Imagine this, but in a word doc:
Yeah.
I usually colour code tables to draw attention to key areas.
If it was color-coded, it would almost certainly not be referred to as a rainbow.
I’m beginning to think Faith shouldn’t have chosen higher education.
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?
What is her crime? Enjoying a table? A colorful, rainbow table?
This is education manifest!
Did the colors in question lack adequate succulency?
The APA table I imagined.
You’d hope a professor would understand capitalisation. I know in real life that many don’t though.
Eh, its a fairly casual email. Could be that autocorrect capitalised it and they couldn’t be fucked to change it.
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.
According to the APA website, it’s more about accessibility and the cost of printing color vs grayscale
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures/colors
Well, rainbow tables are really valuable in certain disciplines, just not those rainbow tables
What if they’re rainbow coloured rainbow tables? (The thought that someone would print out rainbow tables for their thesis is slightly amusing)
Context, nao.
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
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
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.
yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor
Eh, you’d be surprised at how far some people will go to criticize women in STEM fields. It’s not everyone, and I doubt it’s even a majority, but there’s enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if this is true.
Or maybe the OOP is a mathematical Lisa Frank. Idk
no denying that people criticize women in STEM (as a woman in STEM myself), but there are series of “dear Faith” email posts that collectively seem a bit unlikely in their tone and situation, which is what makes me think it’s more likely they’re fake than real
that said, this particular email seems more plausible than the other one about plagiarism.
