rehearse-qa

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Simulated-audience Q&A rehearsal for conference talks, thesis defenses, job talks, and poster sessions. Use when a researcher says "rehearse Q&A", "practice questions", "mock Q&A", "grill me on my paper", "what will the audience ask", "hostile questions", "defense practice", "viva prep", "anticipate questions for my talk", or "questions I hope nobody asks". Sizes a drill to the real Q&A slot, fires hostile and curious questions one at a time in audience personas (hostile skeptic, methods stickler, statistician, adjacent-field expert, big-picture senior, confused newcomer, industry practitioner, self-promoter, rambler) calibrated to the venue family, mines the paper for dreaded weak-point questions, coaches concise answer-first responses, and grades transcripts deterministically for timing, hedging, filler, and buried answers. Coaches honest answers only — never spin — and never invents prior-work citations in drill questions.