Left Digit Effect in Number Line Estimation with Leading Zero and Ten-Thousands Target Numerals

Faculty Sponsor: Hilary Barth Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: When people estimate where numerals should go on a number line, their placements are overly dependent on leftmost digits. For example, on a 0-1000 line, they place 398 far to the left of where they place 403. In two experiments we asked if this is … Read more