There’s nothing wrong with rainbow tables. Printing them sounds a bit excessive, though.
Context, nao.
the context is all there … Faith is a graduate student working on their masters thesis, in the thesis paper they included tables that they presumably color-coded (maybe different columns had different colors), and they used multiple colors such that it was “rainbow colored”.
Apparently the thesis advisor did not like the presence of color and advises using APA guidelines on how to style & format the tables: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures/tables
Interestingly your link doesn’t mention use of color or lack there of. It does say elsewhere that you shouldn’t do it for decoration, though.
That said, things like this are more dictated by the journal you publish to and a thesis has to imitate that. Solution? Graduate and start a journal that requires beautiful color tables, lol
yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor
I have heard horror stories about how specific formatting has to be for a thesis or dissertation, though - and often those rules are very specific to a particular university or even department. So it’s also possible for rules like that to be local and not from a universal standard like the APA guide.
yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor
Eh, you’d be surprised at how far some people will go to criticize women in STEM fields. It’s not everyone, and I doubt it’s even a majority, but there’s enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if this is true.
Or maybe the OOP is a mathematical Lisa Frank. Idk
no denying that people criticize women in STEM (as a woman in STEM myself), but there are series of “dear Faith” email posts that collectively seem a bit unlikely in their tone and situation, which is what makes me think it’s more likely they’re fake than real
that said, this particular email seems more plausible than the other one about plagiarism.
Just saw the plagiarism email post and teah… this is starting to seem fake
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Seeing “Why!” makes my brain angry lol
Why, land sakes! What has your jimmies rustled?
I’m beginning to think Faith shouldn’t have chosen higher education.
I do think a rainbow table would be welcome in Elementary Ed
Because it can’t accept her avant garde use of color to facilitate learning? Because Faith is ahead of her time? Because she is a pioneer?
What is her crime? Enjoying a table? A colorful, rainbow table?
This is education manifest!
Did the colors in question lack adequate succulency?
I have full faith in her. Faith did nothing wrong!
Faith in Faith
First plagiarism and how this? - Get your shit together Faith!
Haven’t been able to locate the definitive source, but there are several of these out there with Faith and Professor Kutaywa.
Believe it originates somewhere on LinkedIn, but very rare for a LinkedIn meme to escape the platform.
Well, rainbow tables are really valuable in certain disciplines, just not those rainbow tables
What if they’re rainbow coloured rainbow tables? (The thought that someone would print out rainbow tables for their thesis is slightly amusing)
Well, for when you’re 300 pages short and you add an appendix…
I’ve only ever been academia adjacent and I’m glad. Some of the most soulless people I’ve ever met. It’s the lab grunts who know how to party. Until they have the life sucked out of them to meet some arbitrary writing spec for a journal
I feel unable to judge without seeing the actual table.
Yeah.
I usually colour code tables to draw attention to key areas.
I do it all the time at work as an engineer. Red/bold for bad numbers, green/bold for good numbers. Maybe orange/bold for mixed bag
Red/green isn’t really a good combination due to color blindness. Either go blue/orange or at least add icons like ↑ and ↓ next to it.
or at least add icons like ↑ and ↓ next to it.
C# in Excel can’t even properly pull values from a table correctly. No way I’m going to waste 2-3 trying to make it concatenate non-alphanumeric characters into cells.
At work, there isn’t anyone I have to send tables to that is colorblind. And if that changes, they can make a request. Until then, I’m sticking with red/green
C# in Excel
What is this abomination you speak of? Are you creating your reports by going C# into Excel? O.o
If it was color-coded, it would almost certainly not be referred to as a rainbow.
Yeah. My conditional formatting makes some of my Excel tables look like I’m defragging my harddrive.
Pastels: could be tasteful
Neon: what happened to your eyes?
Imagine this, but in a word doc:
Oooh. I use Rainbow Tables CSV extension in VS Code too. It’s a great help!
God forbid women have hobbies.
Ah the heady experience of a virgin clown-sighting. We all remember. Bring on the rainbows, Little Bobby Tables.
Sounds like something out of a “Legally Blonde” movie.
I understand that colors can color, heh, our perceptions but being a primarily visual animal means that we can digest information much quicker through color.
Without seeing the charts, I can’t say if the Prof is just being a curmudgeon or not.
According to the APA website, it’s more about accessibility and the cost of printing color vs grayscale
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures/colors
My masters thesis advisor would not let us use the word “that”. In his defense, 90%+ of the time, it’s useless filler and can be left out
*that can be left out
