Re: Overhead and the Future

From: <Christopher>
Date: Fri Sep 09 2005 - 10:20:00 EDT

On Sep 8, 2005, at 11:39 PM, Jack Osborn wrote:

> Tutfe teaches at Yale and has written several books on data analysis
> and representation......I have his book, "The Visual Display of
> Quantitative
> Iniformation", a wonderful treatise on graphical display of
> information or data....

He's basically right on with his critique of 'PowerPoint science' in general. But the assertion that it was the PowerPoint presentation of the O-ring data that was responsible for the Challenger disaster is way off the mark. It wasn't the presentation but coercive management attitudes that OK'ed the launch. See
<http://onlineethics.org/essays/shuttle/telecon.html#fig10> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=GeXp650zUBeKvWFt8MnlhmO25o-LyZYvK9nfG9nQUhFA3Fb6eU3YphteDZmEPqhuV8df1tHdG7SbNl4OGQE">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

1864)
<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a> Received on Fri Sep 09 10:20:00 2005