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Seeing What You Want: Prior Belief Biases Perception of Correlation in Scatterplots

Description:

We think data is definitive, but our perception of it contains bias from expectations and motivations. For example, when Democrats and Republicans view the same depiction of global temperature trends, Democrats see an increasing trend, while Republicans see overall flatness. Could prior beliefs bias our perception of relations depicted in...

Keyword:

scatterplot, belief, psychology, bias, correlation, data visualizations, and perception

Subject:

Psychology

Creator:

Chase Stokes, Steve Franconeri, and Cindy Xiong

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

06/08/2020

Date Modified:

07/23/2020

Date Created:

2020-01-31

Resource Type:

Conference Proceeding