Christopher Osterhaus

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Interpreting bar graphs: Even college students struggle!

Dealing with evidence, Research

Interpreting bar graphs: Even college students struggle!

costerhaus Dezember 6, 2019

In a recent study, we investigated people’s ability to interpret bar graphs. What we found: Even college students find it difficult. On average, they solved less than 50% of the problems correctly.

For details, download our paper!

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Knöchelmann, N., Krueger, S., Flack, A., & Osterhaus, C. (2019). Adults’ ability to interpret covariation data presented in bar graphs depends on the context of the problem. Frontline Learning Research, 7(4), 58 –65. doi:10.14786/flr.v7i4.471

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Christopher Osterhaus is a postdoctoral research associate in psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

My research explores how children come to understand complex social situations and how they acquire scientific reasoning skills.

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