Your Presentation Badly Needs Improvement

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2011-03-27 20:55

I appreciate that you're doing this, but:

1. Your approach to communicating the results is kind of odd (scaling everything to number of liters and a cross-country plane flight). That is twisted and unnecessarily complicated logic. Heck, many of us don't even know how much a liter is! Plus we are becoming distrustful of the "bananas" approach that official agencies are giving the public. Our answer is "but I'm not TAKING plane flights across the country 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year." ]

2. And even if I could make sense of your approach, I can't find the numbers you refer to. Where ARE the numbers in parentheses?

3. Why not just plot the data in sieverts & rems? Those are the units we are all becoming quite familiar with.

4. The graphs should show normal/baseline levels shown (Minimum measurable is not the same as baseline).

Thanks.

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Thanks for your feedback.

Submitted by dchivers on Sun, 2011-03-27 21:09.

Thanks for your feedback. We will take it under advisement.

Haha, you can't please

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2011-03-27 21:23.

Haha, you can't please everyone I guess. UC Berkeley has provided me with more information on this subject than any other source in the media or government at this point. People may interperet the data differently, but at least we have some data. Thank you again for your work.

Please *don't change*

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2011-03-27 21:17.

Please *don't change* presentations or units. I've just learned the ones you're using now. I might argue that you need to be careful with your choice of colors for histograms, some of us are colorblind, but I'd rather have to ask my wife which is which than to have learn a new scheme every few days.

Units

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2011-03-27 23:05.

What could you possibly have against graphs that show sieverts & rems? They're going to have the same shape as a function of time, but we'll all get to see absolute values that we understand and don't require a multi-step conversion algorithm.

How about this? How about they provide them both ways? They're doing the computation anyway, so that they can tell us how many liters of water we'd have to drink in order to get that dose. So they need to add is a couple of graphs of the dose.

I want to thank you all over

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2011-03-27 23:47.

I want to thank you all over at UCB Nuclear. You are doing such a great
service to the community. Proof that more information is a good thing.
It prevents panic. It is when information is withheld that people
get scared. I do think a graph would be nice, in addition to explaining
to the average citizen, what the numbers mean, as you have been doing.
I also really appreciate the comments section. No government authority
is answering these questions that are on all of our minds. If you weren't here, we'd be lost in the wilderness stumbling in the dark without the wheel or fire.