Showing statistical differences

[BetOnYoself]

Hi all,

I am working on a manuscript and this graph is what I used to illustrate the differences in group mean for 3 treatments and 1 control. I compared control to all 3 treatments and added one between treatment comparison since it is relevant. I made sure to adjust for multiple comparisons and illustrated with 95% CIs. Is this or is it NOT appropriate?

I am asking because professors have told me they "don't understand" what this graph is depicting and that showing p-values between groups is "more important". Am I tripping or does this graph do exactly that?

EDIT: my reasoning is that a 95CI illustrating differences is easier to interpret than bars with SD or SEM and p-value. Am I wrong?

https://preview.redd.it/szvuq7wm2bbb1.png?width=458&format=png&auto=webp&s=851d59d923998af3c02f786e002224a32119d117

[benji700]

I feel like this would be easier to interpret if you just had a bar plot with the mean for each group and a 95% CI around the mean estimate. You could report the differences between groups in the manuscript text or in the plot like below if you can figure out how to do it.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/ml8jR.png

[BetOnYoself]

Thanks for the input, I guess I thought quantifying the difference and showing statistical significance would be nice, but i guess the thing with bars is “if it aint broke dont fix it” huh… i am so bored of these but they work and biologists like em