arxivcs.HCcs.AI2026-07-14
"Trust Junk" Leads to Unjustified Support for Highly Discriminatory Predictive Models
Michael Correll, Lucy Havens, Mahsan Nourani
The persuasive power of data visualizations can go awry: for instance, in an explainable AI (XAI) context, visualizations can produce over-trust of predictive models. In this paper, we use a crowdsourced study to show that providing accurate (but superfluous or irrelevant) data i…