Was Jock D. Mackinlays "Ranking of perceptual tasks" [1] (Fig. 15, p. 125) empirically verified by now? At the time of writing (1986) it was not, as stated by the author. Kamps also states in 2012 that Mackinlay "never evaluated his task ranking empirically" [2], but possibly/probably he or someone else did by now. Is there a very similar ranking that was evaluated? I'm aware that many other related empirical studies have been done in this field since then, but would someone recommend a study that I shouldn't miss by no means in this specific context?

1. Mackinlay, Jock. “Automating the Design of Graphical Presentations of Relational Information.” ACM Trans. Graph. 5, no. 2 (1986): 110–41. doi:10.1145/22949.22950.

2. Kamps, Thomas. Diagram Design: A Constructive Theory. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.