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Images that people easily understand

In an online survey of 3000 people that formed part of the Climate Visuals research, people were asked to rate images according to how well they understood them. The images in this gallery were either tested in our research, and were easily understood, or are similar to the tested images, are are therefore likely to be received in a similar way.

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The images on this site fall into two categories: Creative Commons (CC) images and copyrighted (©) images.

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