Something easy that I would find interesting too: Can you maybe determine the welcomingness among people who are not speakers, don’t volunteer for the conference, and don’t work for EA orgs (I mean, one category of people with no special status boost like that, maybe broken down as above)? I noticed a big difference between EAGs where I was a speaker vs. EAGs where I wasn’t.
Something more difficult: Is there some creative way to get more welcomingness calibration? I was at an EAG once where no one was mean to me or anything, so I ticked the maximum welcomingness. But then I went to a crypto conference (Sustainable Blockchain Summit), and there people actively invited me to the tables where they were chatting, asked me questions, involved me in their conversations, etc. It’s was a wholly different experience. If I had had that experience earlier, I would’ve given that EAG a 3⁄5 or so instead of a 5⁄5. I have no good idea how you could figure this out now in the data analysis… Is there maybe an effect that people with more work experience (i.e. maybe more previous conferences) give lower welcomingness scores?
Interesting, thank you!
Something easy that I would find interesting too: Can you maybe determine the welcomingness among people who are not speakers, don’t volunteer for the conference, and don’t work for EA orgs (I mean, one category of people with no special status boost like that, maybe broken down as above)? I noticed a big difference between EAGs where I was a speaker vs. EAGs where I wasn’t.
Something more difficult: Is there some creative way to get more welcomingness calibration? I was at an EAG once where no one was mean to me or anything, so I ticked the maximum welcomingness. But then I went to a crypto conference (Sustainable Blockchain Summit), and there people actively invited me to the tables where they were chatting, asked me questions, involved me in their conversations, etc. It’s was a wholly different experience. If I had had that experience earlier, I would’ve given that EAG a 3⁄5 or so instead of a 5⁄5. I have no good idea how you could figure this out now in the data analysis… Is there maybe an effect that people with more work experience (i.e. maybe more previous conferences) give lower welcomingness scores?
I’ve felt something similar. I’m roughly thinking of it as being “actively welcoming” as opposed to being “passively welcoming.”