1 The seminal works on signal-to-noise ratio in information design are “A Decision-Making Theory of Visual Detection” by Wilson P. Tanner Jr. and John A. Swets, Psychological Review, 1954, vol. 61, p. 401–409; and Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, 1983.

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