ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
An Eye-Tracking Study of Statistical Reasoning With Tree Diagrams and 2 × 2 Tables.
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- The Use of Visualizations to Improve Bayesian Reasoning: A Literature Review.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Eye tracking and the cognitive reflection test: Evidence for intuitive correct responding and uncertain heuristic responding.Memory & cognition · 2022Article
- Natural frequency trees improve diagnostic efficiency in Bayesian reasoning.Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2021Article
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- Different Visualizations Cause Different Strategies When Dealing With Bayesian Situations.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Changing the information format from probabilities into frequencies as well as employing appropriate visualizations such as tree diagrams or 2 × 2 tables are important tools that can facilitate people's statistical reasoning. Previous studies have shown that despite their widespread use in statistical textbooks, both of those visualization types are only of restricted help when they are provided with probabilities, but that they can foster insight when presented with frequencies instead. In the present study, we attempt to replicate this effect and also examine, by the method of eye tracking,
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