*In Doug Zonker's "Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken paper, it is very straightforward that this piece is designed to outline the value of understanding how to interpret and analyze statistical data and its' many presentable formats, along with the importance of understanding the official format and citation style aspects of reading and writing scientific papers. I personally was able to use this piece to get a good starting point idea of where my general statistic and scientific paper interpreting skills stand, and what I will need to be brushing up on in the near future.
*The first thing I recognized in this paper was the use of flow charts and diagrams in conveying scientific information. I personally am pretty comfortable with interpreting this kind of information. I was curious though as to whether or not the diagram symbols on these flow charts had any specific scientific significance, or if these symbols are just a generalized free form way of designing a flow chart?
*I also recognized the bell chart for plotting and interpreting data. This also brought to mind the importance of determining mean and using standard deviation to interpret and make use of statistical data. I feel pretty comfortable in my ability to make use of this particular form, also a lot of this bell chart information can be interpreted and put to use fairly easily using a graphing calculator.
*There was one graph form that I didn't recognize and definitely need to look into getting back up to speed on.
*I also noticed that the citation style in this paper is something I am completely unfamiliar with, so if this is the style we will be using for BES 301 i can definitely use this piece a reference along with getting started on becoming proficient in this style.
*Bottom line is this paper provides us with a nice general outline for understanding what type of information we need to become well versed in, in order to be successful scientific readers and writers.
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