Rationality Freiburg

Statistics: Workshop: Effectively Handling Disagreement

July 8, 2025

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Attendees

  • Total: 24 people
  • Recurring: 16 people
  • New: 8 people

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

  • Responses: 19 people (79.17% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • a lot of practical use (1): 6 people
    • quite a bit of practical use (2): 8 people
    • some practical use (3): 4 people
    • little practical use (4): 0 people
    • very little practical use (5): 1 person
  • Average answer: 2.05 (σ=1.03)

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

2. The atmosphere / vibe was …

  • Responses: 19 people (79.17% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • fantastic (1): 9 people
    • good (2): 10 people
    • okay (3): 0 people
    • bad (4): 0 people
    • horrible (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 1.53 (σ=0.51)

2. The atmosphere / vibe was …

3. The amount of content / exercises covered was …

  • Responses: 19 people (79.17% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • way too much (1): 1 person
    • too much (2): 4 people
    • just right (3): 13 people
    • too little (4): 1 person
    • way too little (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 2.74 (σ=0.65)

3. The amount of content / exercises covered was …

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

  • Responses: 19 people (79.17% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • much too easy (1): 0 people
    • too easy (2): 2 people
    • just right (3): 13 people
    • too difficult (4): 4 people
    • much too difficult (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 3.11 (σ=0.57)

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

5. Structure: On the whole the event needed …

  • Responses: 19 people (79.17% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • much more structure (1): 0 people
    • more structure (2): 3 people
    • (was just right) (3): 13 people
    • less structure (4): 3 people
    • much less structure (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 3.00 (σ=0.58)

5. Structure: On the whole the event needed …

6. The moderation should have been …

  • Responses: 19 people (79.17% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • much more relaxed (1): 0 people
    • more relaxed (2): 2 people
    • (was just right) (3): 14 people
    • more assertive (4): 3 people
    • much more assertive (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 3.05 (σ=0.52)

6. The moderation should have been …

7. Host preparation: The content / exercises were …

  • Responses: 19 people (79.17% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • very well prepared (1): 11 people
    • well prepared (2): 5 people
    • okay prepared (3): 1 person
    • not well prepared (4): 2 people
    • not well prepared at all (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 1.68 (σ=1.00)

7. Host preparation: The content / exercises were …

8. Changing your mind: The event made me …

  • Responses: 19 people (79.17% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • question many things (1): 1 person
    • question some things (2): 11 people
    • question few things (3): 2 people
    • question very few things (4): 5 people
    • not question anything (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 2.58 (σ=0.96)

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: 19 people (79.17% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • probably no: 1 person
    • probably yes: 18 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: 3 people (12.50% 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 don’t know what the topics are.: 1 person
    • 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.: 1 person

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: 11 people (45.83% of attendees)

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

The examples, e.g. for narratives. Also the exercises, though we did not manage to stick to the script

The combination of theory and practice.

Great presentation and content.

The exercises were great, and had a nice mix / variation

Interactive example round when we split up [Deliberate Practice]

The subject an explanation

Practice exercises in small group or partner

Die Strukturiertheit & die Leute:)

schnelle praktische Runde

The facilitation and examples

Seeing so many new people.
Seeing that doing such events works, even with payment.

12. What did you like the least?

  • Responses: 10 people (41.67% of attendees)

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

Overall the workshop was way too big for my taste. I would limit it to 10- 12 people. Also when we split the group it was still too big.

It would probably be better to spread the content out over more time (e.g. multiple sessions). Also some of the exercises would probably benefit from more precise step by step instructions.

Sometimes it was too less time to dive into some more details about things presented.
+1h would have eben perfekt.

The end kind of petered out

too short
how to be less conflict avoidant would’ve interested me too

They speak to fast

Es fällt mir nichts ein…

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It was hard to implement some of the changes

Not enough breaks, too intense.