Heer and Bostock: crowdsourced perception

Type: experimental. Reviewed: 2026-09-13.

Source

Jeffrey Heer and Michael Bostock. 2010. Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design. CHI 2010, 203–212.

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Scope

Original paper; experiment 1A and Figures 3–4.

Limitations

Replicates and extends proportional judgment experiments online. Accuracy rankings are task- and stimulus-dependent; angle did not perform worse than length in this experiment. The guide does not use a universal ordering or claim the queue was tested.