Line Charts, Circles and Bars 📈📊

An experiment was done to find out whether these styles(bar charts, line charts, scatterplots, and plain text) differ in how "casual" they make the data appear to people.

4 correlations were chosen to display visually. 4 different visualizations for each scenario.

Each participant saw 4 styles one representation of each scenario.

After they controlled for the relative plausibility of each scenario, the type of style didn’t observably impact ratings

For the causal statements: Participants rated information they saw in bar charts as the most causal and scatter plots as the least causal