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graphical perception: a standalone construct

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how accurately people decode quantities from graphs, ranked by elementary tasks such as position, length, angle and area.

In statistics, graphical perception refers to how accurately people decode quantities from graphs, ranked by elementary tasks such as position, length, angle and area. This meaning comes from Cleveland (1984) in Journal of the American Statistical Association.[1]

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References

Cleveland, W. S., & McGill, R. (1984). Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 79(387), 531-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1984.10478080

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