  In 1997, Flowers, Buhman, and Turnage published a paper titled ``Cross-Modal
Equivalence of Visual and Auditory Scatterplots for Exploring Bivariate Data
Samples.'' This paper examined our capacity to assess the relationship between
two data variables when presented through visual or auditory scatterplots.
Twenty-seven years later, we have replicated the first part of this influential
study and present the preliminary findings of our replication, initially
involving 21 participants. In addition to purely auditory and visual
scatterplots, we introduced audiovisual scatterplots as a third condition in
our experiment. Our initial findings mirror those of Flowers et al.'s original
research. With this extended abstract, we also aim to spark a discussion about
the significance of replication studies for our research community in general.
