To quantify the amount of data distortion she often saw in published bar charts, Markita Landry, a nanobiotechnology researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleague Teng ...

Missing the bar: how people misinterpret data in bar graphs. Wellesley College. Journal Journal of Vision Funder U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Science Foundation, Brachman Hoffman ...

A common place where one symbol is used to express two different ideas is with bar graphs. So in a bar graph, a bar could represent a single number like a count or a stack five iguanas, three minivans ...

Wellesley College. (2022, February 3). Missing the bar: How people misinterpret data in bar graphs. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 02 ...