![]() ![]() The average PP slide contains 40 words, which take less 10 seconds to read. Looking around the world is easier than analyzing evidence displays, and there may also be within-brain impediments to handling vast amounts of abstract data, but at least the narrow-band choke point for information resolution should not be the display itself. The research suggests that the human retina transmits data to the brain at the rate of 10 million bits per second, which is close to an Ethernet connection! Freed, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Ronen Segev and Michael J. Here is a link to a press-release summary account of an article in Current Biology (July 2006) by Judith McLean and Michael A. This is, for example, the conclusion of sparkline analysis in Beautiful Evidence, where the idea is to make our data graphics at least operate at the resolution of good typography (say 2400 dpi). ![]() In all my books, one of the key arguments revolves around the routinely spectacular resolution of the human eye-brain system, which then in turn leads to the idea that our displays of evidence should be worthy of human eye-brain system.
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