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 ...

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This module uses random number generators to simulate dice rolls. The user can provide any number of different sided dice and the number of times the dice are rolled. The program will then produce a ...

Graphics are often mistaken for a mere frill in the methodological arsenal of data analysis when in fact they can be one of the simplest and at the same time most powerful methods of communicating ...

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, looked at more than 600 research articles published in top physiology journals in early 2014, and found that bar graphs were used to describe ...