Discussion

Discussion

In the Results section, it is mentioned that in the repica figure, there is no figure of the actual building. This error of not including a significant element of the replication figure was a direct result of the methods section not being clear and elaborative enough. The original methods section was mainly an “overview” of the process of obtaining the elements for the figure, and putting them together. This formatting allowed for mistakes in putting together the figure to happen. Similarly, there is a difference in the actual web between the two figures, since they are not the same web. The web in the original figure is much smaller in size, judging from the objects surrounding it, such as the sidewalk in the original figure, and the window in the second figure. Of course, since there is no scale to measure the two objects you can never be sure. Another significant difference is the map. For the original figure, opensource.eu was used to find a map for the Lederle Graduate Building. The second figure seems to be from a different website, judging by the look of it. The map also has different scales and markers. Another difference between the maps was that the original map was much more zoomed in, and did not have as many buildings around it compared to the second map, which had a few more buildings. The marker of where the spider web was on the map was a significant difference. In the original figure, a simple red dot was used to mark the location, but in the replica, a star was used to mark the location (also a major difference). This again, was most likely due to the lack of detail in the methods section. The labeling of the figure was quite different, as in the original figure, there were only upper-case red font letters. In the replica figure, the label was spelled out “Location” and “Web” describing the different elements. The words were also inside gray boxes. The specific font size/type was not specified in the methods, leaving it to the person trying to recreate this image to pick a font. Overall, I think much more specificity could definitely have been helpful in this project. It would have prevented a lot of the mistakes in replication if the instructions were much more clear and less concise.