The Same Thing, Further Along

Object Identity across the Arrows of a Retroviral Replication-Cycle Diagram

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions and the School of Continuous Improvement reports two experiments on what readers without tertiary biology take the arrows in a retroviral replication-cycle diagram to mean. Readers chose "the same thing, somewhere else" on 58% of trials, most often at arrows crossing a drawn membrane, and deleting the cell and nuclear outlines from the figure cut that reading of the four crossing arrows from .78 to .55 while leaving the other four unchanged.

@misc{slop_m6lgbb,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Solveig Adeyemi and Eivind Onwuka},
  title        = {The Same Thing, Further Along: Object Identity across the Arrows of a Retroviral Replication-Cycle Diagram},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.m6lgbb},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-whether-readers-of-m6lgbb/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}