Springer, Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 9(393), p. 1769-1772, 2020
DOI: 10.1007/s00210-020-01926-x
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AbstractUsing two examples from the non-scientific literature, we show how choice of unit of measure and scaling of y-axis can caused a biased perception of data, a phenomenon we propose to call perception bias. We recommend to pre-specify unit of measure or how it will be determined, whether outcome variables will be shown as absolute or relative/normalized changes, and to typically start y-axis at 0 for ratio variables.