Thank you for this insights. As an engineering student I'm usually asked to prepare presentations about technical topics where graphs are of most importance. Just last week I was presenting and I had to go again several times after the end of the presentations to reveal some misunderstanding the audience had. This is will help so next time I can avoide this and prepare better presentations. Thank you again 😊
Thank you for sharing this story! You are not alone when it comes to this.
My latest story is about a student of mine in my "Science Diction" class where I train aspiring engineers to be effective communicators. He delivered a presentation about high-velocity stars and their potential extra-galactic origins, which was very exciting. But everyone in the audience was certain that the whole presentation was about one particular star on his main graph... and it turned out to be an outlier that neither he nor anyone in the field would even consider for the study! It was only in the Q&A that we discovered this fact. Simply because the speaker did not properly walk us through this graph, we made our own sense of it (and it was wrong). The mistake was corrected during the Q&A time in this case.
But I must urge everyone against leaving it "up to chance" that the right question comes up and allows you to correct your presenter mistakes. Don't take the chance - take the lead, and work your graphs to avoid any misinterpretations!
Thank you for this insights. As an engineering student I'm usually asked to prepare presentations about technical topics where graphs are of most importance. Just last week I was presenting and I had to go again several times after the end of the presentations to reveal some misunderstanding the audience had. This is will help so next time I can avoide this and prepare better presentations. Thank you again 😊
Thank you for sharing this story! You are not alone when it comes to this.
My latest story is about a student of mine in my "Science Diction" class where I train aspiring engineers to be effective communicators. He delivered a presentation about high-velocity stars and their potential extra-galactic origins, which was very exciting. But everyone in the audience was certain that the whole presentation was about one particular star on his main graph... and it turned out to be an outlier that neither he nor anyone in the field would even consider for the study! It was only in the Q&A that we discovered this fact. Simply because the speaker did not properly walk us through this graph, we made our own sense of it (and it was wrong). The mistake was corrected during the Q&A time in this case.
But I must urge everyone against leaving it "up to chance" that the right question comes up and allows you to correct your presenter mistakes. Don't take the chance - take the lead, and work your graphs to avoid any misinterpretations!