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 …
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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.
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Oh, I didn’t specify a gender.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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