Thanks so much for sharing our infographic, and we’re so glad you found it interesting. You make a great point – those numbers are a little surprising, but we double checked and sure enough – SMW Lagos was the 2nd most mentioned SMW city after SMW Milan, and Nigeria as a country was 3rd most active after U.S. and Italy. Pretty impressive, indeed

Here’s the link to the full Post-Game SMW13 Report: http://synthes.io/YzNjvh

Thanks again!

Julie Meredith
Marketing Manager – North America
http://www.synthesio.com

But PowerPoint is to data as Discovery Channel is to scientific research. And the Discovery Channel is not a “cultural disease”!

There are “real scientists” that publish detailed studies in academic journals. Then there are TV scientists that know enough about science to understand it, but can also present that information in more interesting or compelling ways.

TV scientist and “pop science” writers get exactly the same criticisms as PowerPoint – i.e. imprecision, exaggeration and superficiality. But if you’re reading this, I’ll bet that those people had a big effect on how you grew up being interested in science.

PowerPoint is a powerful tool, when used for what it’s designed for: summarizing, in an enjoyable format, information when we don’t have time to read detailed research papers about.

“Misinformation” – i.e. deception rather than simplification – has absolutely nothing to do with PowerPoint, and everything to do with the person communicating, whether it’s a presentation or scientific paper.