I don’t think it’s about what’s OK to do (though see CatDancer), but that the discussant is more like the audience than the presenter is. The originator had one way of getting to the idea and this has colored his sense of what the hard parts are. The discussant and the audience are trying to learn it quickly, knowing what conclusions the originator reached.
I don’t think it’s about what’s OK to do (though see CatDancer), but that the discussant is more like the audience than the presenter is. The originator had one way of getting to the idea and this has colored his sense of what the hard parts are. The discussant and the audience are trying to learn it quickly, knowing what conclusions the originator reached.