I'm all for good statistical testing of data.  However, as a grad student,
my advisor said to me, when I handed him a huge spreadsheet of data and
statistics from my research, "Yes, but what did you see with your eyes?"

That has always stuck with me.  From a practical standpoint in beekeeping,
if a beekeeper can't look at a graph of the raw data and clearly see an
effect, then the treatment is likely not enough to bother with.

That is why I like to publish the raw data graphed out--the human eye/brain
is great at detecting patterns.  I've just submitted a test of some mite
treatments to ABJ for publication.  All I included were graphs of the raw
data, no statistics at all.  A picture was worth a thousand words!

Randy Oliver

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