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@cjwich My guiding principle on discussions: It is (mainly) for the audience, not the author. If you have suggestions for the author—that aren’t useful for the audience—offer them in a separate conversation and/or in writing. @lukestein/1064560873383981056
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@cjwich Also: Plenty of bad summaries out there but I find even a mediocre one/slight reframing among most valuable parts of a discussion. (As an audience member. Which is whom the discussion is for.) And not just because presenters often skip conclusion slide! @JaminSpeer/1151914002341142528
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@cjwich Caveat: Finance has a strong culture of single-track “boutique” conferences without a tighter topical focus. Many in audience are interested but not narrow topic experts, and discussants are the norm. High quality discussants are common and high quality discussants are valued.
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@cjwich And the best get rid of the hard parts in order to extract (for the audience) what makes the paper interesting/important (e.g., contribution, place in lit, empirical approach, theoretical intuition, technical details, possible extensions, implications) @MachinePix/1151922584344076288