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posted on 2025-05-09, 08:56 authored by Matthew PartridgeMatthew Partridge

A humorous bar chart comparing the planned vs. actual time spent on academic paper writing, highlighting delays and inefficiencies in research publishing.

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2017-01-25

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A cartoon bar chart compares planned vs. actual time spent on writing a research paper.

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Person 1: Meeting titled "Project planning" Person 2: 10 mins hastily scrawling notes Person 1: Browsing catalogs Person 2: 'Waiting for orders' Person 1: First experiment Person 2: Fixing equipment Person 1: All other experiments Person 2: First draft Person 1: Wait for co-authors Person 2: Submit to journal Person 1: Change image formats Person 2: Re-submit Person 1: Write angry reply Person 2: Write second polite reply Text: Time spent on a paper – Planned / Time spent on a paper – Reality / Designing experiments / Running experiment / Collecting data / Writing the paper / Uploading data / Waiting for a reply from the journal / Corrections / Start / "Woo Hoo"

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