My advisor tells a story about Janet Currie sitting at the presenter’s table and suddenly ducking her head to puke under the table. She was pg at the time. Thenshe revived herself when another presenter was speaking and stood up banging on the table in anger at what the other economist was saying. This was a child development conference.
What's the worst thing you've witnessed at a conference?
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My advisor tells a story about Janet Currie sitting at the presenter’s table and suddenly ducking her head to puke under the table. She was pg at the time. Thenshe revived herself when another presenter was speaking and stood up banging on the table in anger at what the other economist was saying. This was a child development conference.
lol
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I once presented at a conference in which my discussant didn't show up.
The session chair was a moderately big fish in the session's subject -- bigger than me, anyway -- and he offered to discuss my paper.
Most of his discussion consisted of wondering "why people write these sorts of papers?"
(My paper was investigating a traditional question that had been studied for about 15 years but the lit was dying out.)
As I learned more about the subject, I came to better understand why he objected to my paper, but he could have been much, much clearer and more professional in his discussion. It was really a rant on his pet peeves on the subject.
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Had a discussant once totally misrepresent my paper. The presentation time was pretty short, so I just hit the big points. Then he gets up and goes through all sorts of robustness tests I need to do, etc. and those were the tests already in the paper. It was just bizarre, and no time for rebuttal.
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Had a discussant once totally misrepresent my paper. The presentation time was pretty short, so I just hit the big points. Then he gets up and goes through all sorts of robustness tests I need to do, etc. and those were the tests already in the paper. It was just bizarre, and no time for rebuttal.
I may have been your discussant, sorry about that
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Gotcha. Actually the same guy tends to talk about his papers all the time whenever he is a discussant. Leaves a bitter taste in mouth.
Prove your point. Why is it trash?
Maybe they have improved it in the past 4 years but the 2013 presentation was donkey balls
Who presented it?
Not da
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I was last of five to present in my section. The room was full, so I was looking forward to a good audience for my presentation. Right before I was to present, everybody except the chair, one audience member, two presenters, and one of the discussants left. I guess that's how you can figure out you're not working on an interesting topic.
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Had a discussant once totally misrepresent my paper. The presentation time was pretty short, so I just hit the big points. Then he gets up and goes through all sorts of robustness tests I need to do, etc. and those were the tests already in the paper. It was just bizarre, and no time for rebuttal.
MFA?
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Had a discussant once totally misrepresent my paper. The presentation time was pretty short, so I just hit the big points. Then he gets up and goes through all sorts of robustness tests I need to do, etc. and those were the tests already in the paper. It was just bizarre, and no time for rebuttal.
MFA?
That discussant must have been my referee at QJF. Had a very similar experience.
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I was once the second presenter of three. The first person took 90 percent of the total session time and the chair refused to do anything because they were buddies. The last person was junior and was really shltting bricks. Instead of presenting my paper, I said "I don't have time, it's on line, and I want to hand over to #3." #3 later told me she was really grateful.
But the session chair publicly berated me for not behaving "professionally."
BTW, the person who hogged all the time is a big force in pushing for women in the profession.
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I was at a low rent conference in a fun location just before the pandemic. I’d been to events put on by publishers and met this nice woman who was a converted high school teacher turned CC professor. At the time I met her she was brand new, basically a government teacher trying to tread water. Nervous as heck. Very self conscious.
At the most recent conference she presented. She needed to check some boxes for promotion so she presented a classroom experiment. It was simple, because her students are simple. Just one of those games where students buy and sell apples and find out S = D. She wasn’t the most polished presenter I’d ever seen, but she was light years ahead of the person I remembered from the old publisher event.
A guy who has a teaching award named after him flayed her, talking about how this activity was unrealistic and the students would learn the wrong things because it didn’t include this or that. She was crushed, and it was completely unnecessary. To be clear, this wasn’t useful feedback. It was just nastiness. I think he woke up on the wrong side of the hotel room bed.
Way to score points off someone who could have really benefited from his expertise.
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My advisor tells a story about Janet Currie sitting at the presenter’s table and suddenly ducking her head to puke under the table. She was pg at the time. Thenshe revived herself when another presenter was speaking and stood up banging on the table in anger at what the other economist was saying. This was a child development conference.
and yet they want *more* women in econ !