Assessing the Effect of Visualizations on Bayesian Reasoning through Crowdsourcing

People have difficulty understanding statistical information and are unaware of their wrong judgments, particularly in Bayesian reasoning. Psychology studies suggest that the way Bayesian problems are represented can impact comprehension, but few visual designs have been evaluated and only populatio...

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Published in:	IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 18; no. 12; pp. 2536 - 2545
Main Authors:	Micallef, L., Dragicevic, P., Fekete, J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States IEEE 01.12.2012 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Subjects:	base rate fallacy Bayes Theorem Bayesian analysis Bayesian methods Bayesian reasoning Breast cancer Comprehension Computer Graphics Computer Science Crowdsourcing Euler diagrams Female glyphs Human-Computer Interaction Humans Judgments Male Mammography Populations probabilistic judgment Reasoning Representations Sociology Statistical analysis Texts Visual Visual Perception Visualization
ISSN:	1077-2626, 1941-0506, 1941-0506
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