I’m glad it worked well for you! Thanks for the extra data points :)
“Organizer’s choice” seems like a fine way to help people decide what belief to explore. “Roll a die, count down from the top” seems also reasonable.
How did your time limits work? I often put timers in meetups to keep things moving, and find people almost always want more time.
I am not surprised people preferred the controversial beliefs. I don’t have a big list of options yet, but I sort by directness instead of controversy. “Cars run on faerie power” is direct, because you can flip up the hood on a car and have someone start it plus often people have some memories of being told how cars work. Look, no faeries. “Humans take oxygen from every inhalation and exhale carbon dioxide” is less direct, because you have to get kind of clever to test it and lots of people don’t quite remember learning it but suspect they heard it in a class maybe.
Did any of the controversial pairs get heated? Did it seem like they built as solid maps of where their beliefs come from as the non-controversial sets? The thing I’m worried about (and the source of the suggestion not to do controversial topics early) is people searching for reasons they think are respectable, not things they have as cruxes.
I think in many cases people would have been happy to continue after the timers were done. There was no really heated interaction and I assume it was also because of the time limit. The results would probably look different (better?) with more time.
The thing I’m worried about (and the source of the suggestion not to do controversial topics early) is people searching for reasons they think are respectable, not things they have as cruxes.
Sounds plausible. We did not really try to dig into that.
I would like to repeat the event in the future and maybe I’ll introduce some variation to figure some of these questions out :-)
I’m glad it worked well for you! Thanks for the extra data points :)
“Organizer’s choice” seems like a fine way to help people decide what belief to explore. “Roll a die, count down from the top” seems also reasonable.
How did your time limits work? I often put timers in meetups to keep things moving, and find people almost always want more time.
I am not surprised people preferred the controversial beliefs. I don’t have a big list of options yet, but I sort by directness instead of controversy. “Cars run on faerie power” is direct, because you can flip up the hood on a car and have someone start it plus often people have some memories of being told how cars work. Look, no faeries. “Humans take oxygen from every inhalation and exhale carbon dioxide” is less direct, because you have to get kind of clever to test it and lots of people don’t quite remember learning it but suspect they heard it in a class maybe.
Did any of the controversial pairs get heated? Did it seem like they built as solid maps of where their beliefs come from as the non-controversial sets? The thing I’m worried about (and the source of the suggestion not to do controversial topics early) is people searching for reasons they think are respectable, not things they have as cruxes.
I think in many cases people would have been happy to continue after the timers were done. There was no really heated interaction and I assume it was also because of the time limit. The results would probably look different (better?) with more time.
Sounds plausible. We did not really try to dig into that.
I would like to repeat the event in the future and maybe I’ll introduce some variation to figure some of these questions out :-)