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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Heather E Heying‏ @HeatherEHeying Oct 20

      Women report not “getting up the nerve” to ask questions, so researchers propose that “question time be unlimited” at scientific talks. Because, you know, time is a construct. If you won’t hang around waiting for others to speak, you must be a misogynist.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202743 …

      79 replies 229 retweets 1,066 likes
    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
      Replying to @HeatherEHeying

      So infantalising. It's credible that women are less confident about asking questions but the solution to that is for them to push themselves to do it if it matters to them. Confidence will not increase by softening challenges. Women have to be able to compete with men.

      14 replies 23 retweets 295 likes
    3. Tim‏ @Notquiteness Oct 20
      Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying

      Still, given these data and me being a person who is slightly overconfident in asking questions after presentations, I will try to apply some kind of 'ladies first'-principle in the future.

      3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
      Replying to @Notquiteness @HeatherEHeying

      I'd object if you felt I needed such help to be heard. I get this a lot. Feminist men who've never had a popular article let alone a viral one tell me they need to be quiet so I can be heard.

      1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes
    5. (((Just a Flâneur))) [All Hallows’ #Blockchain]‏ @EnlightFundy Oct 20
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Notquiteness @HeatherEHeying

      Ah yes — the self-emasculation of the “Woke”...

      1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
      Replying to @EnlightFundy @Notquiteness @HeatherEHeying

      I just find it presumptuous. Maybe women are less forthcoming on average but don't assume this and think we need your help to speak. I don't mean to be harsh. I *know* it is well-intentioned & I appreciate those intentions, but I would just ask men to treat us as full adults.

      3 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
    7. Arthur Dent‏ @ArthurCDent Oct 20
      Replying to @HPluckrose @EnlightFundy and

      Women tend to be less prone to being risky, impulsive, & showing off - and public speaking is often a bit like that. I know a number of successful female profs and Deans and they can be as a tough as nails. But perhaps even they tend to be a little less ‘loud’ in open forums.

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    8. Alex Smith‏ @Player518214 Oct 20
      Replying to @ArthurCDent @HPluckrose and

      Questions can be intimidating. From experience, one option is to to allow people to text/tweet questions in real time & anonymously: they can then be offered/spoken to the speaker by a moderator.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
      Replying to @Player518214 @ArthurCDent and

      And that is perhaps a valid option for very sensitive topics or for conferences/events in which attendees are not people who have come to listen to, explore and challenge ideas. Let's not encourage timidity. If you have a question or comment, have the guts to ask or make it.

      10:39 PM - 20 Oct 2018
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose @Player518214 and

          Or if we are going to cater to people who are afraid of speaking rather than allowing them to decide whether to push themselves or remain unengaged, let's not make it "women" we protect from this. We're overlapping populations and many women are more outspoken than many men.

          2 replies 1 retweet 26 likes
        3. Alex Smith‏ @Player518214 Oct 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose @ArthurCDent and

          Oh, I didn’t specify a gender.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
          Replying to @Player518214 @ArthurCDent and

          I know but that is what the thread is about. It's what I object to although I also object to this kind of coddling generally. I think we need to stop protecting people from things that can't actually hurt them & encourage toughness & working through such fears.

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        2. Alex Smith‏ @Player518214 Oct 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose @ArthurCDent and

          Sure. But I’ve also seen too many students use the Q&A as a micro-branding/self-promotion exercise to have unwavering faith that the public forum is always the best way to frame and pose relevant questions.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 20
          Replying to @Player518214 @ArthurCDent and

          That's a different argument tho. If you think anonymising questions and having them asked by someone else will weed out attention seekers, this needs addressing separately to the claim that people need coddling to speak publicly or, most annoyingly, that women do.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Alex Smith‏ @Player518214 Oct 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose @ArthurCDent and

          I’m lucky: I’ve had public speaking training, at various stages of my career. I think it’s an much overlooked part of teaching people to be better students.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Arthur Dent‏ @ArthurCDent Oct 20
          Replying to @Player518214 @HPluckrose and

          Pushed our grad students (all female) to compete in a competition to present their research in a brief 5min format. They didn’t want to, but did a great job and made it to the national finals!

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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