Rationality Freiburg

Statistics: Rationality 101 - The Basics (Part 2)

February 15, 2025

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Attendees

  • Total: 15 people
  • Recurring: 13 people
  • New: 2 people

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

  • Responses: 13 people (86.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • a lot of practical use (1): 3 people
    • quite a bit of practical use (2): 7 people
    • some practical use (3): 2 people
    • little practical use (4): 1 person
    • very little practical use (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 2.08 (σ=0.86)

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

2. The atmosphere / vibe was …

  • Responses: 13 people (86.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • fantastic (1): 6 people
    • good (2): 6 people
    • okay (3): 1 person
    • bad (4): 0 people
    • horrible (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 1.62 (σ=0.65)

2. The atmosphere / vibe was …

3. The amount of content / exercises covered was …

  • Responses: 13 people (86.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • way too much (1): 0 people
    • too much (2): 1 person
    • just right (3): 10 people
    • too little (4): 2 people
    • way too little (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 3.08 (σ=0.49)

3. The amount of content / exercises covered was …

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

  • Responses: 13 people (86.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • much too easy (1): 0 people
    • too easy (2): 6 people
    • just right (3): 7 people
    • too difficult (4): 0 people
    • much too difficult (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 2.54 (σ=0.52)

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

5. Structure: On the whole the event needed …

  • Responses: 13 people (86.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • much more structure (1): 0 people
    • more structure (2): 1 person
    • (was just right) (3): 12 people
    • less structure (4): 0 people
    • much less structure (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 2.92 (σ=0.28)

5. Structure: On the whole the event needed …

6. The moderation should have been …

  • Responses: 13 people (86.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • much more relaxed (1): 0 people
    • more relaxed (2): 0 people
    • (was just right) (3): 13 people
    • more assertive (4): 0 people
    • much more assertive (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 3.00 (σ=0.00)

6. The moderation should have been …

7. Host preparation: The content / exercises were …

  • Responses: 13 people (86.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • very well prepared (1): 11 people
    • well prepared (2): 1 person
    • okay prepared (3): 1 person
    • not well prepared (4): 0 people
    • not well prepared at all (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 1.23 (σ=0.60)

7. Host preparation: The content / exercises were …

8. Changing your mind: The event made me …

  • Responses: 13 people (86.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • question many things (1): 0 people
    • question some things (2): 8 people
    • question few things (3): 1 person
    • question very few things (4): 3 people
    • not question anything (5): 1 person
  • Average answer: 2.77 (σ=1.09)

8. Changing your mind: The event made me …

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

  • Responses: 13 people (86.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • probably no: 0 people
    • probably yes: 13 people

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

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

  • Responses: 1 person (6.67% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • Friday evening is a bad timeslot for me.: 0 people
    • I can’t fit another activity into my life.: 0 people
    • 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

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

11. What did you like the most today?

  • Responses: 9 people (60.00% of attendees)

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

The specificity of the subject and the way it was “translated” to the common understanding. I was happy to be able to follow it, even if my background is not education/philosophy…

Backup ev calculation

Good preparation. good questions. Made me think.

Emotional relief about backups

I always enjoy the small group discussion

Learning about the value of time

Interesting topic, high relevance for daily life

The small discussion about the stupidity post. Also the value of your time exercise.

Being able to actually calculate the expected value, not sure if I still understood it correctly but now I will consciously try to calculate it every time.

12. What did you like the least?

  • Responses: 5 people (33.33% of attendees)

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

Long text

Repeat some content from part 1

Not enough time for discussion

The intro was a bit boring for me, but still good to have this for newcomers and also as a repetition.

Nothing, it was a great session!