Hi,

I've done a poster for a conference next week, and i've been looking over data as I want to submit an abstract for a summer school thats very similar. I've realised I've included a data set that has a couple of data points that aren't applicable (this result is technically correct) and now I'm worried i shouldn't have included them. it doesn't effect the graph that much but I'm worried I've represented wrong data

Can you not reprint the poster before the conference with your preferred graph? If not I wouldn't worry about it, posters are for showing general themes, I doubt anyone will look that closely to see one or two data points that aren't meant to be there. I've done posters and then realised later that I've used the wrong units on graphs etc and no one have ever noticed.

Yes if you can reprint the poster then its well and good.

Just leave it in and if anyone asks specifically about that section just be perfectly honest about it.

You could print fixed version of that graph on a normal sheet of paper to show anyone who wants to see that the inclusion of the wrong data doesn't effect the results too much.

Hi,

Thanks for the advice - turned out alright in the end! the only issue is some SEM - I have an n of 5 western blots, but two conditions on one western blot aren't applicable (basically I can't measure the ratio between two of my proteins as one isnt there). It doesnt change the average that much but these two are in one sense an n of 4, but in another an n of 5 so not sure which way to calculate the SEM (so i calculate it as Std deviatin/square root of repeats)