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Lay producers of argument diagrams spontaneously create well-formed global structures, with 80% of diagrams having basic circle or square geometry

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2016 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2021: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? Most participants produced diagrams with basic well-formed geometry (circles/ovals and squares/rectangles comprising 80% of diagrams), exceeding chance. → Marije van Amelsvoort 2016

Evidence

Marije van Amelsvoort 2016

Marije van Amelsvoort, Alfons Maes. (2016). Show me your opinion. Perceptual cues in creating and reading argument diagrams. Instructional Science 44:335–357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-016-9378-9

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Production study with 20 first-year bachelor students drawing argument diagrams on a whiteboard from pre-given for/against argument cards. A binomial test showed "the proportion of wellformedness of .80 was higher than the expected .50, p = .012"; no effect size was printed.

"As expected, Table 1 shows that most of the diagrams have a basic geometry: circles/ovals (as in Fig. 4a) and squares/rectangles (as in Fig. 4b) comprised 80 % of all diagrams. We performed binomial tests for all the main categories, testing the occurrence of perceptual cues against chance. A binomial test indicated that the proportion of wellformedness of .80 was higher than the expected .50, p = .012."

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title Lay producers of argument diagrams spontaneously create well-formed global structures, with 80% of diagrams having basic circle or square geometry
description Lay producers of argument diagrams spontaneously create well-formed global structures, with 80% of diagrams having basic circle or square geometry
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2016
recheck_by 2021
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