Eggshell Plots
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An eggshell plot shows how each assessor ranks all tested samples in relation to the
consensus. The bold purple line represents the consensus line (consensus sample ranking)
while each of the remaining lines represents the sample ranking of one specific assessor.
The closer the line of a one assessor is to the consensus line, the more this assessor agrees
ranking-wise with the consensus. The most left sample is ranked lowest (low attribute
intensity) by the consensus and vice versa.
Further reading:
Oliver Tomic, Asgeir Nilsen, Magni Martens, Tormod Næs, Visualization of sensory profiling
data for performance monitoring, LWT 40 (2007) 262–269.