Numbers can be worth a thousand pictures: Individual differences in understanding graphical and numerical representations of health-related information.

Gaissmaier, Wolfgang; Wegwarth, Odette; Skopec, David; Müller, Ann-Sophie; Broschinski, Sebastian; C. Politi, Mary

doi:10.1037/a0024850

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Numbers can be worth a thousand pictures: Individual differences in understanding graphical and numerical representations of health-related information.

Published in Health Psychology • Aug 15, 2011

Authors:

Wolfgang Gaissmaier

Odette Wegwarth

David Skopec

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Informed medical decision making requires comprehending statistical information. We aimed to improve the understanding of conveying health-related statistical information with graphical representations compared with numerical representations. First, we investigated whether the iconicity o...

Subject

Concreteness

Comprehension

Recall

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