It seems to me like Tufte has a personal vendetta against Power Point. Some of his reasons for disliking Power Point come off as petty. For example, he talks about how in school they are teaching kids to write just a total of about 80 words for a presentation. He fails to mention the purpose of these presentations is to provide the main gist of the speaker’s point and then have the speaker go into further detail and not just read off the slides he or she has prepared.
Another thing that I thought was off about Tufte’s reasoning was his hate for the presentation of data in Power Point. From what he described about the cancer patient example seemed more like a user error then a program error. Now don’t get me wrong, I am not fully behind Power Point, but I feel that Tufte’s reasons don’t make an appealing argument.
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