{"pk":24110,"title":"(In)Accuracy of Human-Generated Correlations in A Scatterplot Drawing Task","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Previous research on perception of correlation of scatterplots used scatterplots as stimuli and asked participants to estimate or compare correlations of those scatterplots. This literature has shown a tendency for people to underestimate correlation in some correlation ranges. We flipped the task: instead of estimating correlation from visual stimuli, participants drew a scatterplot based on a given correlation: 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1 using 20 dots. Participants drew greater correlations for r = 0.25 and r = 0.5 (0.59 and 0.71 respectively), which is analogous to underestimating correlation in previous viewing tasks. Drawn correlations for r = 0, 0.75 and 1 were more accurate. The number of statistics courses taken did not improve correlation drawing accuracy in a strong or meaningful way. We discuss possible interpretations of these results and future directions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Education; Psychology; Human-computer interaction; Perception; Sketch understanding; Qualitative Analysis"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49m756r5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lucy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cui","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCLA","department":""},{"first_name":"Ching-Yi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wang","name_suffix":"","institution":"Academic","department":""},{"first_name":"Yiwei","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wang","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Peike","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Medha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kini","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California, Los Angeles","department":""},{"first_name":"Zili","middle_name":"","last_name":"Liu","name_suffix":"","institution":"UCLA","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24110/galley/13704/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24110/galley/20866/download/"}]}