Lorenzo Ciccione|Mathias Sablé-Meyer|Esther Boissin|Mathilde Josserand|Cassandra Potier-Watkins|Serge Caparos|Stanislas Dehaene
Trend judgment as a perceptual building block of graphicacy and mathematics, across age, education, and culture
NeuroSpine Institute|Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako|Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab|Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education|Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage|Université Paris Sciences et Lettres|Collège de France|Institut Universitaire de France|Paris 8 University|Collège de France
data plots widely used science journalism politics since efficiently allow depict large amount information graphicacy ability understand graphs thus become fundamental cultural skill comparable literacy numeracy introduce measure intuitive graphicacy assesses perceptual ability detect trend noisy scatterplots graph go 3943 educated participants responses vary sigmoid function tvalue statistician would compute detect significant trend find minimum level core intuitive graphicacy even unschooled participants living remote namibian villages n 87 6yearold 1stgraders never read graph n 27 sigmoid slope propose proxy intuitive graphicacy increases education tightly correlates statistical mathematical knowledge showing experience contributes refining graphical intuitions tool publicly available online allows quickly evaluate formally quantify perceptual building block graphicacy