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September 18, 2006
Visual Display
This detailed examination of the Challenger incident reveals how visual displays could result in forming unintended conclusions. Sometimes we would sit back and relax whenever there is enough evidence shown and there has been adequate of investigation done, but does the intended persuasion deliver? In this particular case, although a lot of efforts have been put into assessing the possibility of failure of launches, the charts that were demomentated next day failed to show the crucial links thus incapable to shake the panel’s decision. Given a long period of thinking and processing time, maybe the audience is able to spot the flaws and make the right choice, but how rare does this ever happen? This is the question pondered upon. It therefore awakened our awareness that it is the presenter’s responsibility not the audience’s to make logic clear on the visual display.
Posted by Yan Cao at September 18, 2006 02:57 AM