2). When do you find that giving facts and statistics are most effective in a speech? When are giving facts and statistics not as effective?
In my opinion, a speech which provides information that enables an audience to make a logical connection to the presenter is the defining factor for a successful speech. The use of facts and statistics is what creates this experience. I think there can me numerous times or areas one can present a fact or statistic and have it be impactful. I believe in an informative or persuasive speech beginning with a fact or statistic can establish creditability, engage audience, and create an attentive audience. All these outcomes are desirable when presenting. Furthermore, as a speech continues one can use facts or statistics to support their inferences. Just as facts and statistics can be a great tool in a speech, it can easily be the cause of a lost audience. The miss use or overuse of facts and statistics can easily shut down an audiences’ attentiveness. For example, last weeks drinking and driving video. In my opinion, the speaker’s heavy use of statistics caused the audience to lose interest.
I agree with your opinion about using too much statistics led audiences to lose attention from the speakers. This is like when we are hungry, the first piece plain bread is the best meal than anything else. Yet as we continuously eat second slice bread, third slice bread, our appetite start to reduce the desire to the bread. Accordingly, properly citing facts or statistics in speech is not easy as I thought. However, your opinion has evoked me to avoid misusing facts or statistics for preventing my audiences falling in sleep during my Demo speech. I am glad that I read your post before preparing my presentation notes.
ReplyDeleteYou made several great points in this point. Your statement that "a speech which provides information that enables an audience to make a logical connection to the presenter is the defining factor for a successful speech," really sums up how I feel that many of our classmates feel about this subject. Our use of facts and statistics can really make our speech. Whether or not it comes down to if we use them or not, how often we use them, or in which way we present them, careful analysis of the audience will help us determine how to best use them.
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