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Graphicacy across age, education, and culture: a new tool to assess intuitive graphics skills

2022-10-25

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Data plots are widely used in science, journalism and politics, since they efficiently allow to depict a large amount of information. Graphicacy, the ability to understand graphs, thus became a fundamental cultural skill. Here, we introduce a new measure of graphicacy that assesses the ability to detect a trend in noisy scatterplots (“does this graph go up or down?”). In 3943 educated participan...

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Literature Corpus work: 8c4304ce-607a-591f-816a-4d5e798c1be0
DOI: 10.1101/2022.10.24.513063

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