mrlolloran t1_j18to4r wrote on December 22, 2022 at 2:55 PM

Reply to comment by Swarna_Keanu in Climate Impacts Are Increasing; Textbooks Aren’t Keeping Pace: "biology textbooks are failing to share adequate information about climate change" by Additional-Two-7312

Studies usually have conclusions. I’m not actually a trained scientist, and I haven’t read this study, but that doesn’t mean I’ve never read a study. They looked at under 100 books, they could have and should have checked the table of contents, it would be all too easy to check this stuff. Frankly if they didn’t then I’d call it really bad methodology.

Swarna_Keanu t1_j196ejt wrote on December 22, 2022 at 4:22 PM

:) Welcome to the nonsense that happens due the the "publish or perish" mantra.

It's still informative in that the average sentences decreased. But you know - that's all it says, and all they checked. Would need to dig into the data for more. Might be that there'll be a follow up study in a couple years. And another, and another, which is when it becomes more of a useful data set.

Swarna_Keanu t1_j19haew wrote on December 22, 2022 at 5:32 PM

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278532.g001

And that graph makes it really clear how far the spread of coverage was - with some books doing substantially more.

It also makes clear that the OPs press release mixed up average with mean - which happens so often.