Research

Truly: Is a Presentation Always An Act of Persuasion?

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Prof. Kristan Wheaton, Associate Professor at the Mercyhurst College Department of Intelligence Studies, and owner of the Sources and Methods…

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A study of the average PowerPoint presentation

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How many slides does the average PowerPoint document have? What proportion of them have images on them? Or animation, or…

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Fear of Public Speaking?

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In response to yesterday’s post about Prof. Mehrabian’s research, Nan Peck emailed me another example of false generalization of research. …

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93% of communication comes from non-verbal signs… or does it?

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Have you heard this one before? “Only 7% of communication comes through words, the rest comes from non-verbal communication: 38%…

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