When a presentation seems to drag on forever, is it actually longer on average than a more interesting talk? Adi Gaskell reports on an informal experiment.
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We’ve all been in speeches or presentations that seem to drag on and on forever. Is this simply a perception driven by the dullness of the oration, or is there actually something in it?
Imperial College London’s Robert M. Ewers conducted an informal experiment where he sat in on 50 talks, and timed each of them to determine their length. He then made a snap judgement after around 4 minutes of the presentation as to whether the speech was boring or not, before then checking to see if the « boring » speeches were longer than the more interesting ones.
