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[Stephen Wilson]

Stilgherrian wrote:

>> Also the presenters don't get any extra academic points for  
>> presenting. They get their points for having a paper published. So  
>> there is no incentive for them to cooperate in providing a good  
>> presentation.
> 
> ... I reckon that in the 21st Century getting "points" only for  
> presenting work that's "written in words", as opposed to using high- 
> memetic-bandwidth channels which might better convey meaning, is as  
> obsolete as demanding that PhD theses be written in Latin.

Call me old fashioned, but is there any solid research as yet that shows 
there is a better way of rigorously conveying difficult, complex 
concepts than via carefully written text?

And if so, was such research presented as text or something else?  ;-)

Cheers,

Stephen Wilson
www.lockstep.com.au