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[quote=Anonymous]At academic conferences, you can present your research as a talk, or on a poster that you stand by for an hour and then people come ask you about it. Talks are given only to high-ranking PhDs since there are limited presentation rooms. Meanwhile, acceptance rates for posters is 99% since they just throw up some poster boards in a big ballroom. Why such a high acceptance rate? The conference organizers get kickbacks from the conference hotels like free rooms and so on, but it depends on attendees booking a certain number of hotel rooms. By accepting all posters, those people have justification to go to the conference and will then stay in a room. I've debated having my 3 year old scribble on a poster board and submitting that. I bet she'd be accepted![/quote]
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