RE: FW: What alternatives are there to "Information Mapping"?

[Kathleen Kuvinka <kkuvinka -at- epicor -dot- com>]

> But that isn't the point, if I understood the original 
> poster.  The point is
> that people don't take that extra two seconds because they 
> believe they have the
> correct answer.  If that's true, we as tech writers need to 
> look at table
> formats very closely to make sure the quick answer *is* the 
> right answer.

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> 
> So, the criticism that the original poster was making against 
> Information
> Mapping is that it does not necessarily address this first 
> priority.  Correct?
> 

The original poster trying to say this simple example would not work in a
nuclear power plant. Or something like that. I would say that the EXAMPLE as
presented did not address the priority. The table had multiple information.
It was not misleading. The information was correct. It was well-labeled. The
presenter sets the audience up so that folks are just dying to pop out of
their chairs. That's another story. If your audience can understand how to
read a table, in this situation, it's a good choice for presentation.