A new study suggests that the format in which graphs are presented may be biasing people into being too optimistic or pessimistic about the trends the graphs display. Academics found that when people ...

In this study, the schema-theoretic perspective of understanding general discourse was extended to include graph comprehension. Fourth graders (n=204) and seventh graders (n=185) were given a ...

A bar-graph display provides an easily interpreted graphical indicator that allows comparison with its full-scale value, but a conventional microcontroller-based design uses at least one eight-line ...