Chart Junk? How Pictures May Help Make Graphs Better
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 11:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Those oft-maligned, and highly embellished, graphs and charts in newspapers may actually help people understand data more effectively than traditional graphs, according to new research.
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