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Which visual variable is quantitative in Bertin's sense?

  • A.Colour hue
  • B.Size
  • C.Shape
  • D.Orientation

Answer: B

Correct answer: Size

In Bertin’s scheme size is the only one of these that is quantitative: the eye can judge that one symbol is about three times another, so ratios can be read from it. Value and density are ordered but not quantitative - a darker tone reads as more, not as twice as much - while hue, shape and orientation are merely associative or selective and carry no order at all.

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