Look at Steve Harvey’s Poorly Designed Card – He Was Set Up to Fail

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10 points·jl87··5 comments

I'm stunned someone took the time to write this up and create images of better designs. What's even worse is the fact that I cared enough to comment.

People are interested to know why things happen the way they do; looking at the card, I can completely understand the mistake as the formatting leads one to not really look at the true winner.

The designs are far superior to the one used though. It's easy to see how under the pressure, the lights and expectations one could misinterpret the card.

>It's easy to see how under the pressure, the lights and expectations one could misinterpret the card.

The winner is the only name on the right side. The card obviously reads top to bottom, left to right (which is what a reader of English would expect because it's how you read a book), with the winner on the bottom right. And it has MISS UNIVERSE 2015 over the winning name in all caps - in a font size larger than the runners up.

Was he never even shown an example card before being handed that? Has Steve Harvey never read from a teleprompter or a cue card? Never done a live show? I don't think the card being poorly designed is the problem. That card seems unambiguous to me.

Edit: I've read from some sources that the telemprompter was wrong. If that's true then there is the problem, still not the card.

Don't act like you're not impressed.

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