# Dull PowerPoint presentations: why do audiences love them so much?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 19, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dull-powerpoint-presentations-why-do-audiences-love-them-so-much/426976 "2007-11-19T00:46:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dull-powerpoint-presentations-why-do-audiences-love-them-so-much/426976/21 "2007-11-19T10:03:50Z")

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Ehrm, maybe they’re just doing what I call “being back at the nun’s”.

I know I can look absolutely fascinated by presentations that have me bored out of my mind. It’s a technique I learned in primary school and which I can recognize in others - but way too many people can’t recognize it. When we had our first presentations with Latin Americans, my US coworkers were surprised at how attentive the LARs had been; people hadn’t been fiddling, sighing or, in general, giving signs that the presentation was as painful as we knew it to be. I had to explain about the technique and how to deal with it. Our audience hadn’t been attentive at all; merely, like me, they knew how to hide the fact that they were thinking about anything else. Those notes? In my case it’s the weekend’s shopping list.

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