Hints to Scientific Writing:
                                Avoid Data Dumping

   Avoid wordy and relatively useless statements such as this.  This is called data dumping where the author just says 'hey, I am too busy to summarize the information for you.  Just go look in the table and figure this out for yourself'.  Not a very helpful strategy.  The author's responsibility is to first summarize the findings that will be highlighted in the table or figure and then to refer the reader to the appropriate table or figure.  In this case, the entire sentence can be eliminated and because the next sentence handles this well:

        "Home ranges of the sexes did not differ (t=0.02, df=28, 16, p>0.99, Table 1)."

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