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Illusion of Causality in Visualized Data
Cindy Xiong, Joel Shapiro, Jessica Hullman +1
Students who eat breakfast more frequently tend to have a higher grade point average. From this data, many people might confidently state that a before-school breakfast program wou…
Biased Average Position Estimates in Line and Bar Graphs: Underestimation, Overestimation, and Perceptual Pull
Cindy Xiong, Cristina R. Ceja, Casimir J. H. Ludwig +1
In visual depictions of data, position (i.e., the vertical height of a line or a bar) is believed to be the most precise way to encode information compared to other encodings (e.g.…
Truncating the Y-Axis: Threat or Menace?
Michael Correll, Enrico Bertini, Steven Franconeri
Bar charts with y-axes that don't begin at zero can visually exaggerate effect sizes. However, advice for whether or not to truncate the y-axis can be equivocal for other visualiza…