Timeline for What to think of zero feedback at a conference
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| Jun 3, 2016 at 11:29 | comment | added | gaborous | I agree with this point. I am genuinely curious and interested by very diverse fields, even if very remote from mine. I often happened to be the only auditor asking questions during a whole track. When discussing with my collegues that also attended the same tracks about why they didn't ask any question, they usually say that it wasn't particularly interesting for them. On the other hand, in some fields like neuroscience, you often get lots of questions from layman people that didn't understand anything. So the motivation is primordial and not related to the actual value of your presentation. | |
| Nov 22, 2015 at 19:27 | comment | added | mb7744 | @jakebeal That is not really what David said. Or at least what David said was a lot more constructive. It's not just whether the audience cares about the material, it is whether the talk was so technical or detailed that they couldn't form questions. | |
| Nov 22, 2015 at 14:27 | vote | accept | The Wonderer | ||
| Nov 21, 2015 at 3:41 | comment | added | jakebeal | +1 This is absolutely my experience: no questions usually means a talk that the audience did not care about. If they liked the material, they'll ask "future work" questions. If they disagree with points, they'll ask challenging questions. If they think you're boring, incomprehensible, or hopeless, they'll ask nothing. | |
| Nov 20, 2015 at 18:38 | history | answered | David Ketcheson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |