boost: Statistically Significant Love Song and Wisdom re Interacting with a Fan Object

A Statistically Significant Love Song

from HenrikWidegren featuring Johanna Körner Berglund with excellent subtitles in 11 languages!

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(thanks to the Ask.Metafilter thread on Songs about data or statistics)

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I was listening to Lingthusiasm, (the podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics) and Gretchen plugged an old yet still-wise blog post. While her advice is particularly helpful for graduate students, it also applies to SF cons and any context where you’re a fan and want to actually communicate with the presenter.

How to interact with someone who’s just given a talk - A guide to academic conversations

The key thing to realize is that most of the time, you know more about the speaker than they know about you, so you need to start the conversation and you get to pick what it’s about.

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(a)s someone who has now been on the receiving end of occasional fangirling, I find it endearing but also I don’t always know what to do with it. It’s super helpful if you can set us on the course of having an actual conversation, rather than putting me into the weird position of “why yes, I agree, I am awesome.” It’s always nice and safe to start with “I enjoyed your talk” but follow that up with something concrete.

https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/145122859819/how-to-interact-with-someone-whos-just-given-a