Debunking strategies for misleading bar charts

This deposit includes the data that was collected in an experimental study on debunking strategies for misleading bar charts, involving 2 surveys (one week delay) with a total of 24 unique bar charts each with two bars, filled in by 441 representative (age, ethnicity, gender) participants from the USA. De experiment compares four methods for correcting misleading bar charts with truncated vertical axes by measuring the participants evaluated difference between the bars at five time points. Measures were taken on a visual analogue scale. The first survey also included a short graph literacy scale and a question on highest completed educational level.