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The author concludes that the presentation to the accounting team was appropriate in leaving out “more detail” about profit projections. This is based on the fact that people’s attention tends to wander when they’re presented with “too much” detail.
The author overlooks the possibility that the presentation should have included more detail, but not so much that it would be “too much.
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