The New York Time vuelve a comentar los efectos de PowerPoint en la inteligencia:
This year, Edward Tufte — the famous theorist of information presentation — made precisely that argument in a blistering screed called The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint. In his slim 28-page pamphlet, Tufte claimed that Microsoft’s ubiquitous software forces people to mutilate data beyond comprehension. For example, the low resolution of a PowerPoint slide means that it usually contains only about 40 words, or barely eight seconds of reading. PowerPoint also encourages users to rely on bulleted lists, a »faux analytical» technique, Tufte wrote, that dodges the speaker’s responsibility to tie his information together. And perhaps worst of all is how PowerPoint renders charts. Charts in newspapers like The Wall Street Journal contain up to 120 elements on average, allowing readers to compare large groupings of data. But, as Tufte found, PowerPoint users typically produce charts with only 12 elements. Ultimately, Tufte concluded, PowerPoint is infused with »an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.»
Por otro lado, JR trata el mismo tema y comenta:
Por mi parte, lamento la fiebre simplificadora en la que han caído muchos ingenieros y ejecutivos por usar esa aplicación, pero tampoco vamos a negar su utilidad en presentaciones, conferencias y la docencia en general. Unos buenos apuntes escritos en Power Point, y luego completados a bolígrafo durante la clase, hacen milagros.
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