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Harvard Just Discovered That PowerPoint Is Worse Than Useless
- 3327 7y agoMaybe, but Whats worst than useless are Inc. clickbait articles.
- vo2maxer 7y agoYou might be interested in Gene Weingarten’s Pickin’ up where the Apostrophe Protection Society left off, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-pickin-up-where-the-apostrophe-protection-society-left-off/2020/01/02/e7479cca-1b8a-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weing...
- todd8 7y agoThis is hardly a new revelation. Edward Tufte, whose books about the presentation of data are well known, wrote a thin pamphlet around over 15 years ago that was essentially a rant against the use of PowerPoint presentations. See: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0961392169/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i4 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0961392169/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
- ketzu 7y agoShouldn't it say "presentation slides are <judgement>", it doesn't seem like the point specifically applies to PowerPoint. (also anecdotally having a bad presentation with or without a tool doesn't matter, having a good presentation seems to help having visual aids and mediocre presentations would be helped if they stopped following terrible advice)