Do students confuse dimensionality and “directionality”?

The research reported here has been financed in part by Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Direccion General de Investigacion, Spain, under Grant no. EDU2011-27288 and in part by the University of Alicante under the birth project GRE10-10.

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