: When is it best to use a bulleted list, a table, a sentence, or something else? If your goal is optimal clarity in the least amount of time when communicating complex information, what is

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If your goal is optimal clarity in the least amount of time when communicating complex information, what is the best way to present that information?

Clearly, tables, lists, and using certain tones, concise wording, etc. can help make complex information easier to understand.

I'm looking for resources - webpages and/or books, which have people who have given this subject intense thought and came up with some good ideas.

Take this sentence for example:
If you own a dog and/or cat and bird or fish, then you qualify for a prize!

It's not immediately clear what you need to qualify, does it mean that if you own only a fish then you qualify? Does it mean that if you own a dog and/or cat and bird, or a dog and/or cat and fish, you qualify?

If you presented it in list form, it would be clearer:

If you own a:

dog and fish or;
cat and fish or;
dog and bird or;
cat and bird

Then you qualify for a prize!

It might be even clearer or more concise in a structured table with implied AND operator, or something. I'm just looking for resources on this subject.

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