Making Graphical Inferences: A Hierarchical Framework
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A hierarchical framework suggesting how graph readers go beyond explicitly represented data to make inferences is presented. According to our hierarchical framework, graph readers use read-offs, integration and pattern extrapolation to make inferences. Verbal protocol data demonstrates highlevel differences in the way inferences are made and eye track data examines these processes at the perceptual level.
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