An analysis of PowerPoint presentations was done through a recent experiment, which was broken up into three focus areas: Study 1: The frequency of which certain principles are broken. Study 2: What participants found to be inefficient in the PowerPoint presentations they’ve encountered in the last year. Study 3: The ability or inability for participants to recognize which principles were being violated on certain slides. Then, participants were shown slides that violated principles, and asked to point out the violated principle, and define which principle was violated. This description was centered on the first and third focus areas. The second focus area was experimented on by asking participants what problems that they encountered with PowerPoints they had seen in the last year.