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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Stat Assoc. 2012 Jan 1;105(489):59–70. doi: 10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08518

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Mean number recalled as a function of subpopulation size for 12 names. If respondents recall perfectly, then we would expect the mean number recalled to increase linearly as the subpopulation size increases. The best-fit line and loess curve show that this was not the case suggesting that there is recall error.