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Attendees

• Total: 19 people
• Recurring: 16 people
• New: 3 people

1. Practical use: For my life, what we did today will have …

• Responses: 15 people (78.95% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • a lot of practical use (1): 1 person
  • quite a bit of practical use (2): 9 people
  • some practical use (3): 2 people
  • little practical use (4): 3 people
  • very little practical use (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.47 (σ=0.92)

2. The atmosphere / vibe was …

• Responses: 15 people (78.95% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • fantastic (1): 8 people
  • good (2): 6 people
  • okay (3): 0 people
  • bad (4): 1 person
  • horrible (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 1.60 (σ=0.83)

3. The amount of content / exercises covered was …

• Responses: 15 people (78.95% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • way too much (1): 0 people
  • too much (2): 4 people
  • just right (3): 10 people
  • too little (4): 1 person
  • way too little (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.80 (σ=0.56)

4. The difficulty level of the content / discussion was …

• Responses: 15 people (78.95% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • much too easy (1): 0 people
  • too easy (2): 1 person
  • just right (3): 13 people
  • too difficult (4): 1 person
  • much too difficult (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 3.00 (σ=0.38)

5. Structure: On the whole the event needed …

• Responses: 15 people (78.95% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • much more structure (1): 0 people
  • more structure (2): 2 people
  • (was just right) (3): 13 people
  • less structure (4): 0 people
  • much less structure (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.87 (σ=0.35)

6. The moderation should have been …

• Responses: 15 people (78.95% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • much more relaxed (1): 1 person
  • more relaxed (2): 0 people
  • (was just right) (3): 12 people
  • more assertive (4): 2 people
  • much more assertive (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 3.00 (σ=0.65)

7. Host preparation: The content / exercises were …

• Responses: 15 people (78.95% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • very well prepared (1): 10 people
  • well prepared (2): 3 people
  • okay prepared (3): 1 person
  • not well prepared (4): 1 person
  • not well prepared at all (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 1.53 (σ=0.92)

8. Changing your mind: The event made me …

• Responses: 15 people (78.95% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • question many things (1): 1 person
  • question some things (2): 9 people
  • question few things (3): 1 person
  • question very few things (4): 4 people
  • not question anything (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.53 (σ=0.99)

9. Do you think you will come to one (or more) of the next three events?

• Responses: 15 people (78.95% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • probably no: 1 person
  • probably yes: 14 people

10. If you answered “probably no” in the previous question or are very uncertain, why is that?

• Responses: 3 people (15.79% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • Friday evening is a bad timeslot for me.: 1 person
  • I can’t fit another activity into my life.: 1 person
  • I did not like (some of) the people here.: 0 people
  • I did not like today’s venue.: 0 people
  • I live too far away.: 1 person
  • I’m not very interested in your usual topics.: 0 people
  • The level of English is too advanced for me.: 0 people

11. What did you like the most today?

• Responses: 10 people (52.63% of attendees)

Note: Anything contained in square brackets [] is an edit by the organizers.

In interactive part of the presentation and the small group

I improved my knowledge on rationality and learned a few tools

I’m not new to rationality, but it was still good to go over the basics again

New yorker article

Great presentation! - loved the exercises

People

The discussion of concepts and the practical exercises

Going through the Basics with a group.
Even though I knew most of the basics already, Having a group around me made the repetition fun.

Ich war mal wieder da. Sehr netter Event

small group discussion

12. What did you like the least?

• Responses: 5 people (26.32% of attendees)

Note: Anything contained in square brackets [] is an edit by the organizers.

How irrational I am 🤣

too many snacks

Looking at my phone in a room full of people

Ideas about the article were not discussed together

nothing comes to mind