The Power of a Picture: Overcoming Scientific Misinformation by Communicating Weight-of-Evidence Information with Visual Exemplars

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Journal Article The Power of a Picture: Overcoming Scientific Misinformation by Communicating Weight-of-Evidence Information with Visual Exemplars Get access Graham N. Dixon, Graham N. Dixon 1The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99163, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Brooke Weberling McKeever, Brooke Weberling McKeever 2School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Avery E. Holton, Avery E. Holton 3Department of Communication, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Christopher Clarke, Christopher Clarke 4Department of Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Gina Eosco Gina Eosco 5Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 65, Issue 4, August 2015, Pages 639–659, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12159 Published: 09 May 2015