An Eye-Tracking Study of Statistical Reasoning With Tree Diagrams and 2 × 2 Tables.

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, why probabilistic 2 × 2 tables and tree diagrams do not facilitate reasoning with regard to Bayesian inferences (i.e., determining what errors occur and whether they can be explained by scan pa

SUBMITTER: Bruckmaier G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6530428 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature