A Picture’s Worth
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Some Pictures Are Worth 2 א
According to the cliché, a picture is worth a thousand words. But this is a ca-nard, for it vastly underestimates the expressive power of many pictures and diagrams. Even a simple map, such as the bare outline of Manhattan Island accompanied by a pointer marking North (Fig.1), is worth a vast infinity of sen-tences—including a vast infinity of useful true sentences. Here's why. Figure 1 Let's f...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00335.x