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Direct linkRoth, Wolff-Michael; Bowen, Gervase Michael – Cognition and Instruction, 2003
This study analyzes the interpretive activities of scientists related to familiar and unfamiliar graphs. The analyses show that when scientists were familiar with a graph, they read it transparently and thereby leapt beyond the material basis to the thing the graph is said to be about. In contrast, when scientists were less familiar with the…
Descriptors: Scientists, Graphs, Cognitive Processes, Inferences
