I mostly agree with Tufte's argument. Power point presentations many times are just slapped together by a student at the last second. All it is is copy/pasting quotes and charts you find online with extremely brief bullet points. Sometimes, even with 20 slides, the power point doesn't say much because you're using 46 point font. Some people try and make it look like they did something, but in reality they really only wrote 50 words. In my opinion, Power Point should only be used as a visual tool for the audience while someone is giving a speech, and that person should only be primarily graded on their speech.
On the other hand, some people are very good at making and presenting power points because they know their audience really well. A guy in my English class last year made a power point that kept us interested and it was histerically funny with cartoons(which suprisingly didn't dumb it down). It was about how teachers are underpaid. I forget the specifics of it, but he made some funny comparisons. In the midst of all the comedy, he did have a good argument, and backed it up with facts.
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