Monday, February 20, 2012
APA Session Rule #7
After giving the commentary, the commentator should pretty much remain silent for the rest of the session, unless a question from the floor is explicitly directed toward him or her (in which case the response should be very brief), or the main speaker explicitly calls upon the commentator for elaboration.
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Hear hear!
wv: partiest 585; a lot of drunken mereologists?
So confused. I agree wholeheartedly with your earlier rules, but totally disagree with this.
APA Session Rule # 15
If you don't understand a paper, but no one else expressed difficulty with it, don't implicate the author with remarks like: "I think what's confusing everyone is..." or "It probably would have helped to ease all the confusion here if you..."
Seconded 8:32!
I usually just give my comments and not much else. Occasionally a person in the audience will reference my comments which bowls me over with surprise and pleasure. The best part of being a commentator is reading the paper and formulating the response. I found it to be excellent practice.
I totally agree. You've said your piece, now it's someone else's turn.
If you don't understand a paper, but no one else expressed difficulty with it, don't implicate the author with remarks like: "I think what's confusing everyone is..." or "It probably would have helped to ease all the confusion here if you..."
Excellent. Five bucks to the first presenter who interrupts the questioner and asks: "What, have you taken a fuckin' poll?!"
One time I presented a paper, the commentator proceeded to attempt not only to respond to all of the questions before I did, s/he also tried to FIELD questions.
I'm a grad student. The commentator is a tenured professor. (And the commentator pretty much accepted my argument, so it's not like my position had been demolished by Q&A time.)
Philosophers are cruel, impolite motherfuckers.
As the one who proposed the “speak for yourself” rule (# 15 above), I forgot to say I totally agree about commentators. They already get an outsized turn and, like the actor at the Oscars who reads the envelopes, their (physical) positioning on stage gives them no special authority over the proceedings.
Still, I once saw an APA commentator who not only hogged the floor, but did so after letting it slip he “only skimmed” the paper!
5:33, I've seen this a few times. The worst case ever: T. C. I've even seen him do this from the floor when he wasn't the commentator.
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