TY - JOUR
T1 - A graph for every analysis
T2 - Mapping visuals onto common analyses using flexplot
AU - Fife, Dustin A.
AU - Longo, Gabrielle
AU - Correll, Michael
AU - Tremoulet, Patrice
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - For decades, statisticians and methodologists have insisted researchers utilize graphical analysis much more heavily. Despite cogent and passionate recommendations, there has been no graphical revolution. Instead, researchers rely heavily on misleading graphics that violate visual processing heuristics. Perhaps the main reason for the persistence of deceptive graphics is software; most software familiar to psychological researchers suffer from poor defaults and limited capabilities. Also, visualization is ancillary to statistical analysis, providing an incentive to not produce graphics at all. In this paper, we argue that every statistical analysis must have an accompanying graphic, and we introduce the point-and-click software Flexplot, available both in JASP and Jamovi. We then present the theoretical framework that guides Flexplot, as well as show how to perform the most common statistical analyses in psychological literature.
AB - For decades, statisticians and methodologists have insisted researchers utilize graphical analysis much more heavily. Despite cogent and passionate recommendations, there has been no graphical revolution. Instead, researchers rely heavily on misleading graphics that violate visual processing heuristics. Perhaps the main reason for the persistence of deceptive graphics is software; most software familiar to psychological researchers suffer from poor defaults and limited capabilities. Also, visualization is ancillary to statistical analysis, providing an incentive to not produce graphics at all. In this paper, we argue that every statistical analysis must have an accompanying graphic, and we introduce the point-and-click software Flexplot, available both in JASP and Jamovi. We then present the theoretical framework that guides Flexplot, as well as show how to perform the most common statistical analyses in psychological literature.
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U2 - 10.3758/s13428-020-01520-2
DO - 10.3758/s13428-020-01520-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101771509
JO - Behavior Research Methods
JF - Behavior Research Methods
SN - 1554-351X
ER -