Can humans perform mental regression on a graph? Accuracy and bias in the perception of scatterplots
Abstract
Despite the widespread use of graphs, little is known about how fast and how accurately we can extract information from them. Through a series of four behavioral experiments, we characterized human performance in "mental regression", i.e. the perception of statistical trends from scatterplots. When presented with a noisy scatterplot, even as briefly as 100 ms, human adults could accurately judge if it was increasing or decreasing, fit a...
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Title
Can humans perform mental regression on a graph? Accuracy and bias in the perception of scatterplots
Published Date
Aug 1, 2021
Journal
Volume
128
Pages
101406 - 101406
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