Congrats @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social!!!

I totally understand, and thanks for the apology. Always down to chat about this stuff—I know there's a lot to debate about these patterns in other species (and how meaningful they actually are in general). All the best to you as well!

Do I see that the data for hybrids, which has a minor role in the paper and the smallest N, is v noisy? 100%, I have eyes. But a trend line is only a coarse summary, especially when accounting for other sources of variation. More in the paper if you decide to check your ego and stop projecting. 🙂

Wow okay. Sorry I thought I was dealing with an adult. Maybe you should read the paper before making aggressive critiques... That line of best fit comes from a model explicitly based on the mathematical formulation of Menzerath's law, accounting for individual identity and sequence ID...

What is your specific critique? I don't see any red flags with the plots, especially given the output of the models.