I HAVE A RESULT I HAVE A RESULT HOLY CRAP

[solarbird]

Holy crap! I have a result! I mean, aside from the trivial one I was expecting, I have an actual result! There's not nearly enough data to, like, publish for real or something, of course - I only have my own instead of an entire group's and it's only across a few weeks of bird observations - but HOLY CRAP I HAVE A RESULT!

It holds up across a couple of different measurement approaches, too. And it looks real purty in the graphs.

Yay! Results!

ETA: Now with crappy Excel graphs in the comments! Yay!

Comments

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

What are you observing? Where are the graphs!

Cathy

[solarbird]

The trivial result is "small birds fly away from large birds and large birds don't fly away from small birds at feeders." That's the one I expected to be able to carry away when I designed the study, insofar as it can be called that. The surprising actual result is that small birds when scared/driven away from feeders by intruding larger birds don't go any further away than they do if they just leave on their own:



(Mode 330/330; mean 350/376; median 400/400; closest actual data in all cases to averages is 330/330. To wit: rawk.)

You can see how tiny my dataset is here, unfortuantely. It's based on only 19 hours of observation. So I know I don't have nearly enough data to really make this a serious result for a real paper or something. But given what I have, I'm kinda pleased. ^_^

[pstratt.livejournal.com]

What effects do kittys looking out the window have?

[solarbird]

sadly, we have no kitteh ;_;

But I did record and monitor when C-Cat showed up outside and hung around for a while!

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

Cool! Looks maybe like with time they will be normally distributed around about the same mean.

Cathy

[solarbird]

Yeah, with more data, I'd have something. Oh well, at least I can turn it in and say "look! result!" and hopefully Dr. Wennstrom will go YAY A+ FOR J00

[drglam]

Yay data!

[solarbird]

I just posted a graph. ^_^