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Attendees

• Total: 29 people
• Recurring: 26 people
• New: 3 people

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

• Responses: 26 people (89.66% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • a lot of practical use (1): 4 people
  • quite a bit of practical use (2): 12 people
  • some practical use (3): 4 people
  • little practical use (4): 6 people
  • very little practical use (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.46 (σ=1.03)

2. The atmosphere / vibe was …

• Responses: 26 people (89.66% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • fantastic (1): 11 people
  • good (2): 12 people
  • okay (3): 2 people
  • bad (4): 1 person
  • horrible (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 1.73 (σ=0.78)

3. The amount of content / exercises covered was …

• Responses: 26 people (89.66% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • way too much (1): 0 people
  • too much (2): 1 person
  • just right (3): 21 people
  • too little (4): 4 people
  • way too little (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 3.12 (σ=0.43)

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

• Responses: 26 people (89.66% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • much too easy (1): 0 people
  • too easy (2): 7 people
  • just right (3): 18 people
  • too difficult (4): 1 person
  • much too difficult (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.77 (σ=0.51)

5. Structure: On the whole the event needed …

• Responses: 26 people (89.66% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • much more structure (1): 1 person
  • more structure (2): 4 people
  • (was just right) (3): 19 people
  • less structure (4): 2 people
  • much less structure (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 2.85 (σ=0.61)

6. The moderation should have been …

• Responses: 26 people (89.66% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • much more relaxed (1): 1 person
  • more relaxed (2): 1 person
  • (was just right) (3): 19 people
  • more assertive (4): 5 people
  • much more assertive (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 3.08 (σ=0.63)

7. Host preparation: The content / exercises were …

• Responses: 26 people (89.66% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • very well prepared (1): 11 people
  • well prepared (2): 10 people
  • okay prepared (3): 4 people
  • not well prepared (4): 1 person
  • not well prepared at all (5): 0 people
• Average answer: 1.81 (σ=0.85)

8. Changing your mind: The event made me …

• Responses: 26 people (89.66% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • question many things (1): 0 people
  • question some things (2): 13 people
  • question few things (3): 7 people
  • question very few things (4): 5 people
  • not question anything (5): 1 person
• Average answer: 2.77 (σ=0.91)

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

• Responses: 26 people (89.66% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • probably no: 1 person
  • probably yes: 25 people

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

• Responses: 6 people (20.69% of attendees)
• Answers:
  • Friday evening is a bad timeslot for me.: 2 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.: 1 person
  • The level of English is too advanced for me.: 1 person
  • too little kids. no space for kids to play. I know this is a hard ask.: 1 person

11. What did you like the most today?

• Responses: 15 people (51.72% of attendees)

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

Misch aus Input und Diskussion

People

Great open discussion round.
Great impulses for discussions from both presentations.

The presentation

Dass Omar zwischen normativen und deskriptiven Aussagen unterschieden hat 🙂

The topic was great. Also at the meta level given it’s also related to the core group topic of truthseeking

Gute Vorbereitung

Topic

Rationalist Taboo

Omars short talk

very good nice of discussions/questions during the talk. not too much. not too little

Gruppendiskussion, Neues Thema

Snacks, könnten mehr salzige geben

Vibe

Knowing about the content of the book

12. What did you like the least?

• Responses: 8 people (27.59% of attendees)

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

Zu viele Diskussionen zwischendrin

Die Diskussion in der großen Gruppe ist für meinen Geschmack etwas ausgeartet

A final whole group debrief at the end could have been great. To at least hear of what was discussed in the other groups.

Zuviele Zwischenrufe, Nebendiskussion

Ventilation. [Edit: Removed a slightly personal criticism about one participant since publishing this seems to add no value.]

group discussion could have used some structure. Like a couple of prompting questions related to the talk(s) could have made the discussion a lot more fun/valuable

Lautstärke am Ende / nach der Veranstaltung

Long interruptions during the presentations