Dethier, Corey (2026) The Case of the Mislabeled Axis: On the difference between trustworthiness and accuracy. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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What makes a graph good or bad? I examine a controversial graph of climate model accuracy to motivate a partial answer to this question. The graph has two main problems: visual distance is supposed to measure model accuracy but does not, and the graph is better understood as depicting model accuracy in a possible world than in the actual one. I argue that these two problems are indicative insofar they are not primarily a function of the graph’s truth conditions. Generally: the features that make a graph trustworthy or epistemically valuable depart systematically from those that make a graph accurate.
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| Keywords: | Graphs; climate change; climate science; images | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Data Specific Sciences > Earth Sciences Specific Sciences > Environmental Science General Issues > Rhetoric of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Corey Dethier | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 29 May 2026 12:37 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 29 May 2026 12:37 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 29791 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Data Specific Sciences > Earth Sciences Specific Sciences > Environmental Science General Issues > Rhetoric of Science |
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| Date: | 2026 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29791 |
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