Is there any scale to measure how good a presentation is? Some people say that if it doesn't hurt to listen to it and you don't fall asleep, then it's good, which is indeed an excellent indicator if we want to decide whether a presentation is good or not, but is there a scale on which the quality of a presentation can be measured?
It is absolutely certain that the listening experience is greatly influenced by how interested we are in a particular topic, because - if we are not experts on the topic - the speaker can be any star, if the topic is a seemingly insignificant area of molecular botany, there will almost certainly be a part that we will find somewhat boring. And if someone talks about the operation of a parachute on a falling plane in a forgettable style, the audience will hang on to every word - for sure.
Let's put these extremes aside for a moment, and assume that we are at some level interested in the topic of the presentation and, due to our knowledge of the topic, we can interpret the content:
The structure and structure of the content certainly play a big role, as does the speaker's voice and intonation . Perhaps the most important thing is to be able to keep the audience's attention , to make sure the language is understandable , and not unnecessarily slang, jargon, foreign words, and God forbid, Hunglish.
Visual additions can add a lot to a presentation, but they also carry just as much risk, because if the visualization is “too good”, it will distract the audience, not to mention the slides containing two A4 pages of text. As you can see, there are quite a few things to consider, and we haven’t even talked about how well the presenter leads the presentation , how they inform us about where we are, what has been said so far and what is next, or how they handle questions from the audience .
There is no SI unit (yet) for the quality of a presentation, but if we score it based on the aspects highlighted above and average the scores on a scale of ten, we can get a relatively exact measurement.
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