You start by asking questions. If you’re wrong you’ll find out, if you’re right you’ll expose something.
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RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months agoEven 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.
fidodo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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.
nonagonOrc@lemmy.world 6 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.
cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
that is a very scientific environment. of you cant deal well with the second question youre at the wrong place
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I mean, it’s much easier to dismiss a shitty question than a good one.
candybrie@lemmy.world 6 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.
fidodo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
If a subject is a scientific passion of yours, you don’t dismiss good questions, you welcome them.