Taking things personally, whether it be comments on presentation style, experimental design, theoretical derivation, or some other area that we all--hopefully--negotiate and learn, is not an effective way to play the game.
One such tool, called Voice Threads, allows students to leave comments on presentations using video, audio or text.
Thanks to audiences at the Sigma Group at the LSE, Leeds HPS, and the first year seminar in Oxford, for comments on presentations of parts of this material, and to Alan Hájek, Chris Porter, and Fred Kroon for extensive and very helpful comments on a draft entry.
(And last year's big, it-went-viral-out-of-the-upfronts winner, "This Is Us," became a breakout hit). One comment on the presentation today: ABC sure likes to give shout-outs to all sorts of executives.
Elminating the competition aspect, there is no winner announced, though audience members are each given forms to rate and comment on each presentation.
All of my comments are on presentation and say nothing about the methodological accomplishments of this work and the data presented.
For example, short segments with only comments on the presentation and long segments that contain a lot of statements as a result of a hot debate.
Serrano commented on the presentation of Jimmy Wales during the film, "In the end, I came out of the theater thinking of him as a three-dimensional figure, very much a man with passion but neither completely good or evil.
Now I don't volunteer my services as willingly or as easily knowing that while the MD enjoys an afternoon on the couch, "making a few comments" on the presentation, or taking a break at a child's birthday party or a friend's dinner, I would be spending "not much time" making those changes in a hot airless office.
We are grateful to those who commented on the presentation of this study at the 6th International Symbiosis Society meeting in Madison.
