In spite of my fondness for words, I also can’t get enough
of great infographs. Their effectiveness
is well-documented (here, for instance, is a great example – an infograph about
infographs! http://visual.ly/13-reasons-your-brain-craves-infographics?view=true),
but I think that the reason I like them is because they seem to occupy a middle
ground between completely removed learning (for example, reading about history
in a book), and more experiential learning (for example, learning about history
through being able to physically interact with artifacts from the time
period). While you can’t really reach
out and touch infographs, they do provide a way to absorb information more
directly, and in a way that seems to stick in the brain. Even if the information that’s being
communicated is complex, I seem to have an easier time remembering it when I
picture the (often simple) graphic.
Here are a couple of my favourites:
Statistics also seem to have been embraced by the internet
in the form of popular blogs. And I must
admit, I often find myself procrastinating by casually clicking through lists
like this one: http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_550_16-shocking-statistics-youll-wish-were-made-up/. Statistics, by their very nature, tend to be
somewhat shocking, but I’m almost starting to feel like I’ve become desensitized
to a lot of statistics, as a result of their ubiquity on the internet.
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