Facts & Statistics

Including facts and statistics in your speech can cause you to increase your credibility. It can also help your audience to come to an agreement with your on how important your topic is. Using facts and statistics can be the most effective in a speech when you are trying to make a logical appeal. They can help you to prove your point by showing support for your topic with concrete information that is hopefully verifiable and credible. Facts and statistics have been very helpful to me when making persuasive speeches. Facts and statistics might not be as effective if you are making an emotional appeal. Facts and statistics can be interpreted differently by different people who each have their own knowledge base, opinions, and backgrounds. In this case facts and statistics could hurt your topic if you are not extremely clear on how you mean them to be interpreted, but even then there is a chance that the right message will not be received.