In Your Classroom
In Your Classroom
[Caption above scatter plot with labeled axes] Caption: The thing you study just showed up in your classroom! That's... Upper y-axis label: Good Lower y-axis label: Bad Upper x-axis label: Normal Lower x-axis label: Weird
[First quadrant (left to right, top to bottom):] 20th century authors Exobiology 21st century authors 19th century authors Robotics Paleontology Martian soil chemistry Child psychology Tourism [Second quadrant] Atmospheric physics Ethics Education Bibliography Human physiology Public speaking Architecture Library science Furniture design Culinary arts Ergonomics Botany [Third quadrant] Entomology Occupational therapy Hydraulic engineering Pest control Foodborne illness Criminal law Physiology of stress Oncology [Fourth quadrant] Ornithology Animation Petroleum geology Highway engineering Toxicology Hematology Hostage negotiation History of siege warfare Trauma surgery Volcanology Quasar astronomy

Randall has created a thought experiment and corresponding chart about school courses. The idea is, "the subject of the class appears in the classroom" and the chart compares how dangerous and how unusual that would be.
In the title text two points that are off the chart to the left and right are also mentioned. See details about all the subjects in the table below.
Note that Randall uses similar diagrams in each of 388: Fuck Grapefruit , 1242: Scary Names and 1501: Mysteries , which also contain different items. They  also have extra points mentioned in the title text. In the first two comics the points are also off the chart, whereas for the last the description of the point is too long to fit on the chart. Extra info outside the chart is also used in the title text of 1785: Wifi , but this is a line graph.
[Caption above scatter plot with labeled axes] Caption: The thing you study just showed up in your classroom! That's... Upper y-axis label: Good Lower y-axis label: Bad Upper x-axis label: Normal Lower x-axis label: Weird
[First quadrant (left to right, top to bottom):] 20th century authors Exobiology 21st century authors 19th century authors Robotics Paleontology Martian soil chemistry Child psychology Tourism [Second quadrant] Atmospheric physics Ethics Education Bibliography Human physiology Public speaking Architecture Library science Furniture design Culinary arts Ergonomics Botany [Third quadrant] Entomology Occupational therapy Hydraulic engineering Pest control Foodborne illness Criminal law Physiology of stress Oncology [Fourth quadrant] Ornithology Animation Petroleum geology Highway engineering Toxicology Hematology Hostage negotiation History of siege warfare Trauma surgery Volcanology Quasar astronomy
