Visualizations with a miscued slant are in accordance with the information that is provided in the context of the visualization, even though these elements may be de-emphasized. However, visualizations with a contradictory slant are in opposition to the information that is provided.

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The graphic visualization emphasizes an aspect of a story visually, even though the title addresses the other aspect. For example, the information presented in the title may be visually more faint on the graphical visualization.

Miscued Slant

The context (e.g., text/title) and the graph are misaligned (e.g., they state an opposite trend).

Contradictory Slant

Kong, H. K., Liu, Z., & Karahalios, K. (2019, May). Trust and recall of information across varying degrees of title-visualization misalignment. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems (pp. 1-13).

Trust and recall of information across varying degrees of title-visualization misalignment

Difference Between Contradictory and Miscued Slant

- Recall
- Lack of perception of bias
- Dropping of title's credibility

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