Sunday, February 26, 2012
Using Statistics
When using facts and statistics in a speech, the most useful and effective times to use them would be if you are giving a speech to persuade or to inform. Using facts and statistics appeals to the logic of the audience members, and it causes agreement among them, helping to unify them to your position. Using facts and statistics also increases your credibility, but only when coming from a reliable source. When trying to persuade someone, giving facts and statistics would help back up your position and give them something to ponder about. When using them in an informative speech it can help educate the audience member and bring them to a better understanding of the material that you are presenting. Some of the ways that facts and statistics could be detrimental to your speech would be to present so many that the people listening become overwhelmed and lose focus on what they are hearing. Presenting material with poor credibility and from a bad source could also hurt you. Also, when one starts to present facts and statistics that have no point in your speech, like giving statistics on the economy when you are talking about the ocean, people will be confused about the point that you are trying to get across.
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I agree with you about the use of statistic and facts, particularly in a persuasive or informative speech. It is really important to make that logical connection with your audience. Thus establishing credibility as the presenter. You make a good point that, it will only establish credibility if the statistics or facts come from a reliable source. You are absolutely correct about the over use of statistics and facts. I can’t help but recall the drinking and driving video that we watched last week. In my opinion, the speaker over used statistics and facts in presenting. I lost interest in the speech after the first 2 min.
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