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expecon-tables-figures

Use when an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript's exhibits must make the treatment contrast and its uncertainty visible at a glance. Builds design-carrying tables and figures; it does not run analysis or draft prose.

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# Tables and Figures (expecon-tables-figures)

## When to trigger

- A reader cannot see the treatment effect from your main figure without reading the text
- Tables report regression coefficients but never show the raw treatment means and their spread
- Time/round dynamics (learning, convergence, decay) are hidden inside aggregate numbers
- Error bars, units, or the inference level on a plot are ambiguous or wrong

## The treatment-comparison figure is the paper's spine

At a method-defined journal, the central exhibit is almost always a **comparison across treatments**, and a referee should grasp the result from it alone. Design it to do three jobs.

1. **Show the contrast directly.** Plot the primary outcome by treatment — bars or dot-and-CI for means, but **prefer showing the distribution** (box/violin, or a CDF when distributions differ in shape, not just level). A CDF often reveals that a "no mean effect" masks a shift in the tails.