Journal articleAuthors : Hermer, Ethan (2023)
Scientific conclusions are based on the ways that researchers interpret data, a process that is
32 shaped by psychological and cultural factors. When researchers use shortcuts known as
heuristics to interpret data, it can sometimes lead to errors. To test the use of heuristics, we
34 surveyed 623 researchers in biology and asked them to interpret scatterplots that showed
ambiguous relationships, altering only the labels&#... 
