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Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data
October 22, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news:

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Charts can be social artifacts that communicate more than just data

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The degree to which someone trusts the information depicted in a chart can depend on their assumptions about who made the data visualization, according to a pair of studies by MIT researchers.

For instance, if someone infers that a graph about a contro . . .

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