The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint"Compares PowerPoint with alternative methods for presenting information: 10 case studies, an unbiased collection of 2,000 PP slides, and 32 control samples from non-PP presentations. The evidence indicates that PowerPoint, compared to other common presentation tools, reduces the analytical quality of serious presentations of evidence"--Page 2. |
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... PowerPoint presentations directed to NASA officials who were making some important decisions during the final flight of the space shuttle Columbia . Those presentations contained several intellectual failures in engineering analysis ...
... PowerPoint presentations directed to NASA officials who were making some important decisions during the final flight of the space shuttle Columbia . Those presentations contained several intellectual failures in engineering analysis ...
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... PowerPoint briefing slides instead of technical papers as an illustration of the problematic methods of technical communication at NASA.8 Clearly the Board had their fill of lightweight PP presentations ! Richard P. Feynman , " What Do ...
... PowerPoint briefing slides instead of technical papers as an illustration of the problematic methods of technical communication at NASA.8 Clearly the Board had their fill of lightweight PP presentations ! Richard P. Feynman , " What Do ...
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... PowerPoint slides that accompany talks have much lower rates of information ... PowerPoint slide typically shows 40 words , which is about 8 seconds- worth of ... presentations made by educational administrators ) . A vicious circle ...
... PowerPoint slides that accompany talks have much lower rates of information ... PowerPoint slide typically shows 40 words , which is about 8 seconds- worth of ... presentations made by educational administrators ) . A vicious circle ...
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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within Edward R. Tufte No preview available - 2006 |
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