Due Friday March 2 B1202 Biology of Behavior Assignment Graph Interpretation Int

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Due Friday March 2 B1202 Biology of Behavior Assignment Graph Interpretation Interpret a graph from an article which is available on the MyCourses tab. The article is Alpin. L.M., Sheldon, B.C. and J. Morand-Ferron. 2013. Milk bottles revisited: social learning and individual variation in the blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus. Animal Behaviour 85(6), 1225-1232. 0.6 0.4 02 Female Figure & The distrbut of individuals sing social lesrning b and e dlts re ows in Liht ni les ( 0,05. i dark. prwy. Tho Preportion of all indindasas in that class alross all erogs that solved tho qask is don Take a look at Figure 5 and answer the following questions 1. What is the independent variable? 2. What is the dependent variable? 3. Why did the authors use a bar graph instead of a line graph? 4. According to this figure, what sex and age class was most likely to learn the skill? 5. Which sex and age classes were not different from one another in their skill acquisition ability?

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Question 1

Here "Gender" is independent variable.

Question 2

Here " Proportion acquiring Novel skill" is dependent varaible here.

Question 3

Author use a bar graph as bar graph are better graph in comparing two statistics. In line graph if number of results or data are more then it will be used there. But as for comparison in a limit (Here as proportions are in between 0 to 1) Bar graphs are better.

Question 4

According to this figure "Female - Juveniles" are better to learn the skill.

Question 5

Here Juveniles Female and Male adults are not different from one another in their skill acquisition ability

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