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[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Any kind of interruption seems rude AF, and that’s without even considering the sexism and insinuation that she’s incompetent.

What’s the norm for the audience in situations like this? Raising your hand? Holding any questions/comments until the end?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Even then you don't go "you don't understand x!". You make an actual point about something in the presentation, usually with enough self-doubt to state it as a question.

If the whole presentation is trash in your opinion, just leave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You start by asking questions. If you're wrong you'll find out, if you're right you'll expose something.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Also, if someone just says "you're wrong about X" that's way easier to deal with than "considering this other paper says these things, can you explain your motivation for X?".

Those questions are the worst.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I find that to be the other way around. I would much rather have people ask the second kind of question, whereas the first kind will give me nothing to work with. In the worst case you can answer that you havent read thtose papers and you will after the presentation. At best they can actually teach you something you haven't considered yet. But often you can respond with your motivation which you generally thought about for much longer than they did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

that is a very scientific environment. of you cant deal well with the second question youre at the wrong place

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean, it's much easier to dismiss a shitty question than a good one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most researchers I know welcome difficult questions. Like that's the whole game. Finding the difficult questions about your work and answering them.

A lot of the time, it sucks of you only get bad questions or no questions. It usually means your work was uninteresting or so poorly presented no one grasped enough to even ask about something relevant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

If a subject is a scientific passion of yours, you don't dismiss good questions, you welcome them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Depends on the size of the meeting and the length of the meeting.

For an hour-long lecture/seminar with less than 20 people, probably raising your question directly is fine.

For a 25 mins talk at a conference with 200 people, you will probably need to save your question to the end.

But it is always safer to ask beforehand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Some people develop extreme skills while never learning how to interact with others.