Rationality Freiburg

Statistics: Joy in the Here and Real

September 14, 2025

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Attendees

  • Total: 22 people
  • Recurring: 19 people
  • New: 3 people

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

  • Responses: 18 people (81.82% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • a lot of practical use (1): 3 people
    • quite a bit of practical use (2): 8 people
    • some practical use (3): 3 people
    • little practical use (4): 3 people
    • very little practical use (5): 1 person
  • Average answer: 2.50 (σ=1.15)

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

2. The atmosphere / vibe was …

  • Responses: 18 people (81.82% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • fantastic (1): 11 people
    • good (2): 5 people
    • okay (3): 2 people
    • bad (4): 0 people
    • horrible (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 1.50 (σ=0.71)

2. The atmosphere / vibe was …

3. The amount of content / exercises covered was …

  • Responses: 17 people (77.27% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • way too much (1): 0 people
    • too much (2): 1 person
    • just right (3): 10 people
    • too little (4): 6 people
    • way too little (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 3.29 (σ=0.59)

3. The amount of content / exercises covered was …

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

  • Responses: 17 people (77.27% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • much too easy (1): 1 person
    • too easy (2): 6 people
    • just right (3): 9 people
    • too difficult (4): 1 person
    • much too difficult (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 2.59 (σ=0.71)

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

5. Structure: On the whole the event needed …

  • Responses: 17 people (77.27% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • much more structure (1): 0 people
    • more structure (2): 5 people
    • (was just right) (3): 12 people
    • less structure (4): 0 people
    • much less structure (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 2.71 (σ=0.47)

5. Structure: On the whole the event needed …

6. The moderation should have been …

  • Responses: 17 people (77.27% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • much more relaxed (1): 0 people
    • more relaxed (2): 1 person
    • (was just right) (3): 14 people
    • more assertive (4): 1 person
    • much more assertive (5): 1 person
  • Average answer: 3.12 (σ=0.60)

6. The moderation should have been …

7. Host preparation: The content / exercises were …

  • Responses: 17 people (77.27% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • very well prepared (1): 4 people
    • well prepared (2): 8 people
    • okay prepared (3): 3 people
    • not well prepared (4): 2 people
    • not well prepared at all (5): 0 people
  • Average answer: 2.18 (σ=0.95)

7. Host preparation: The content / exercises were …

8. Changing your mind: The event made me …

  • Responses: 18 people (81.82% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • question many things (1): 2 people
    • question some things (2): 8 people
    • question few things (3): 3 people
    • question very few things (4): 4 people
    • not question anything (5): 1 person
  • Average answer: 2.67 (σ=1.14)

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: 18 people (81.82% of attendees)
  • Answers:
    • probably no: 3 people
    • probably yes: 15 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 (13.64% 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.: 2 people
    • 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: 13 people (59.09% of attendees)

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

die Vielfalt
mit kommen, ohne vorbereitet zu sein

dass ich mich getraut habe erstmalig (!) Tanz & Gesang einzubringen

Socialising with people

The Dance

Die Diskussionen und die Beiträge der Teilnehmenden

Tanzen und Singen, Pläne für gemeinsame Sportveranstaltungen

This was a great meetup. Dancing together was particularly refreshing!

Learning more about other participants.

It was interesting to hear what makes other people happy :)

The singing+dancing. Also hearing of everyone’s personal happiness factories

Dancing / exercise part

The dance was kind of fun.

Sharing personal stories

12. What did you like the least?

  • Responses: 7 people (31.82% of attendees)

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

konnte manches nicht verstehen

Maybe that it wasn’t so much structured, we could talk about a certain aspect of having joy in life.

Learning about the low Baseline Happiness.

We went quite off-topic at times but quite fine still

No presentation

Few really new ideas for me. Bit superficial messages occasionally. A bit more input or discussable statements would have been nice instead of very long discussion time.

It would have liked the group constellations to have been a bit more structured, it felt a bit chaotic.