t body temperature of a living person could never go to zero! By including zero, we are also making the apparent jump in temperature during days 21-30 much less evident. In general, my inclination for line plots and scatterplots is to use all of the space in the graph, unless the zero point is truly important to highlight.</p>
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<img src="StatsThinking21_files/figure-html/bodyTempAxis-1.png" alt="Body temperature over time, plotted