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Curse of Knowledge
What you already know can make it difficult to estimate what another person knows, notices or can do without that knowledge.
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The Curse of Knowledge in Visual Data Communication
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- What it supports
- Informed viewers were more likely to see the relevant pattern and overpredicted whether naive viewers would see it, demonstrating a knowledge-related communication gap in a visual task.
- Where it may not transfer
- Selected charts and explanatory backstories do not represent every data display or audience. The finding supports testing a chart with its actual readers, not removing context, annotation or statistical detail by default.
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