/sci/ - Science & Math

>Be me, PhD student
>Writing paper for a journal about some research I’ve recently done with my supervisors
>Some of the data is exponential, plot it on a graph where the vertical axis has a log scale so that the exponential relationship can be easily verified
>Supervisors completely baffled
>”Why did you plot it as a straight line if it’s exponential?”
>Spend the next hour trying to explain about log scales and exponential functions to them
>”Anon, you should plot it as an exponential curve, it’s not linear”

Mfw