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Attendees

• Total: 19 people
• Recurring: 15 people
• New: 4 people

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

• Responses: 16 people (84.21% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • a lot of practical use (1): 0 people
  • quite a bit of practical use (2): 4 people
  • some practical use (3): 7 people
  • little practical use (4): 4 people
  • very little practical use (5): 1 person
• Average answer: 3.12 (σ=0.89)

2. The atmosphere / vibe was …

• Responses: 16 people (84.21% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • fantastic (1): 6 people
  • good (2): 6 people
  • okay (3): 3 people
  • bad (4): 0 people
  • horrible (5): 1 person
• Average answer: 2.00 (σ=1.10)

3. The amount of content / exercises covered was …

• Responses: 16 people (84.21% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • way too much (1): 0 people
  • too much (2): 1 person
  • just right (3): 8 people
  • too little (4): 7 people
  • way too little (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 3.38 (σ=0.62)

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

• Responses: 16 people (84.21% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • much too easy (1): 1 person
  • too easy (2): 5 people
  • just right (3): 10 people
  • too difficult (4): 0 people
  • much too difficult (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.56 (σ=0.63)

5. Structure: On the whole the event needed …

• Responses: 16 people (84.21% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • much more structure (1): 0 people
  • more structure (2): 6 people
  • (was just right) (3): 9 people
  • less structure (4): 1 person
  • much less structure (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.69 (σ=0.60)

6. The moderation should have been …

• Responses: 16 people (84.21% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • much more relaxed (1): 0 people
  • more relaxed (2): 0 people
  • (was just right) (3): 13 people
  • more assertive (4): 3 people
  • much more assertive (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 3.19 (σ=0.40)

7. Host preparation: The content / exercises were …

• Responses: 16 people (84.21% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • very well prepared (1): 4 people
  • well prepared (2): 8 people
  • okay prepared (3): 2 people
  • not well prepared (4): 2 people
  • not well prepared at all (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.12 (σ=0.96)

8. Changing your mind: The event made me …

• Responses: 16 people (84.21% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • question many things (1): 0 people
  • question some things (2): 3 people
  • question few things (3): 10 people
  • question very few things (4): 2 people
  • not question anything (5): 1 person
• Average answer: 3.06 (σ=0.77)

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

• Responses: 16 people (84.21% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • probably no: 2 people
  • 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.: 0 people
  • 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.: 1 person
  • The level of English is too advanced for me.: 0 people

11. What did you like the most today?

• Responses: 12 people (63.16% of attendees)

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

Interesting conversation and insight.

Neue Worte für Dinge finden die ich schon weis

Rationality Taboo

The small group discussion- rationality taboo

Learning about not just HPMOR but adjacent and related works, how the presentation gave an overview of messages to expect from the book as well as style and flavor

Presentation, discussion, hearing about rationality taboo

I’ll actually listen to the audiobook now

Discussion

I became more convinced that HPMOR is interesting

Small talk about science fiction

I was motivated to read HPMOR

Discussion and interceptions

12. What did you like the least?

• Responses: 12 people (63.16% of attendees)

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

Could have been a bit faster paced for me. Yet overall really lovely.

Nich genug Zeit um meine Gedanken zwischendrin zu sortieren

Today we were lacking a bit of interactivity

Hearing negative/debatable Things about harry Potter and the author

Some activity to complement the presentation, maybe as half of the session could have been good. Though the impromptu discussion session was also nice.

One chapter to read beforehand might have been interesting

spoilers

The topic felt like a cult favourite

The presentation was good albeit a bit slow at times. It would also have been better to prepare something additional e.g. an exercise or something interactive related to HPMOR.

Beginning and waiting

Duration

Lower amount of regulars, than I expected