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Figures & data
Table 1. The description of categories and examples of elements in each category.
Table 2. Instances and percentage of comics including analysable elements from each category of analysis (N = 104).
Figure 1. A comic titled ‘Scientific research’ depicting difficulties during research.NOTE: Mr. Doctor is working on a substance that will revolutionize the world, but suddenly it explodes. Next day he drives to work and he is frustrated and shares his feelings with a colleague who sympathises with the scientist. Later on, his third attempt he succeeds in creating the substance again without the explosion and he is happy with the result.
Figure 2. The development of a robotic arm with distinctive reserach phases.NOTE: While sitting on a toilet the scientist realizes that he can’t reach the toilet paper. He comes to a conclusion that his arm is too short and he spends decades trying to solve the problem. When he finally has created a solution – a robotic arm – he dies of old age and states that he could have just moved the paper closer.
Figure 3. Choosing sciences can lead to ridicule.NOTE: One person decides to become a scientist and the other leaves for coffee while mocking the other for this. When the person returns the other has made science by floating a balloon on a hair dryer.
Figure 4. Explosion depicted as a results of mixing liquids.NOTE: Location is labelled as ‘chemistry class’. Two liquids are poured in and heated which leads to explosion. The scientist is analysing that the explosion was perhaps due to overheating the mixture.
Figure 5. Doggersaur rex illustrating how science is connected to serendipity.NOTE: A dog is walking in a laboratory or an office. For no apparent reason, an anglerfish is eating another fish on the background. The dog knocks two test tubes into his bowl and after eating it, the dog turns into a hybrid of a dog and a dinosaur.
