Discuss the implications of the forgetting curve.

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- This is the concept applied to public speaking in which the horizontal axis represents the amount of time after a speech and the vertical axis represents the percentage of content that is remembered.
- The representative curve is fast falling which indicates that a large percentage of the speech is forgotten quickly. The line then begins to level out.
- The forgetting curve applies to both the main points and the sources of information associated with a speech.
- Over a short period of time, audience members quickly forget what has been said.

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