NASA: PowerPoint makes you stupid
Posted by Matthew on Saturday December 13, 2003 @09:30PM
from the PowerPointless dept.
Matthew writes: Most IT practitioners have long held that heavy users of PowerPoint are almost always blithering idiots, capable of understanding just three to five bulleted points per page. NASA has joined those ranks, accusing PowerPoint of making even engineers stupid.
Edward Tufte, perhaps the most famous information theorist specializing in presentation and author of “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information“—easily the most exciting book on the visual display of quantitative information ever written—has written a scathing 28 page pamphlet on the dangers of PowerPoint. He concludes that PowerPoint weakens verbal and spacial reasoning and corrupts statistical analyses. Thus, it’s a powerful sales tool, but horrifyingly mind numbing for decision-making.
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Comment by Matthew — December 17, 2003 @ 10:55 am
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That's old news. It was in the CAIB investigation.
Comment by me — December 20, 2003 @ 3:54 am
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If Powerpoint makes you stupid, imagine how stupid automatic software that creates Powerpoint presentations could make you…
Comment by Michael — December 21, 2003 @ 4:33 am
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At SlashNOT, “Breaking News” refers to the corruption of content and intent, not the speed at which the news is posted.
Comment by Matthew — December 29, 2003 @ 3:56 pm