On March 8, 2017 at SketchBubble Ashish Arora blogged about How
Fear of Public Speaking Can Hold Back Your Career. His seven reasonable tips
were to:
Be Gentle with Yourself
Be Yourself
Don’t Focus on Being Perfect
Inspire
Prepare
Retrain Your Self-Sabotaging Mind
Get the Audience Involved
But he opened his post with this credibility destroying nonsense:
"If
you suffer from a fear of public speaking, you are definitely not alone. In
fact, fear of public speaking often lands in the top five of the biggest fears
that humans have. In some surveys, it even lands in the number one slot, with
death coming in at a close second!"
When you click on his link to the Washington Post article
about the first Chapman Survey on American Fears, you will find no mention of
death. If you dig further and look at the Chapman press release, you’ll find
that they only listed public speaking in the top five, not first.
Where did the claim that public speaking is number one with
death a close second really come from? It’s a nonsensical Fear/Phobia
Statistics web page, which I blogged about in a post on December 7, 2014 titled
Statistic Brain is just a statistical medicine show.
The image was adapted from a tuberculosis test poster at the
Library of Congress.
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