I shall be attending (90% confidence).
Anyway, I looked through the questions, and, well, please take this as constructive criticism, but I'd have no idea about the truth of most of those statements, and they mostly seem to be fairly dry statistics. I dunno what the people who actually attended the last meeting thought, but I'd suggest maybe something more like geeky pub-quiz with probability estimates?
Thanks for posting this for me, Frank! Hopefully I'll have enough karma to announce future meetups myself.
I started this group on Meetup a week ago, and was pleasantly surprised by the interest it got. If you're in the Perth area and looking for a meetup, check out our page there.
Statements can still be used for calibration even if you don't know the answer, but it's always more fun if you have at least an inkling of the answer. It's always good to add more fun to things like this, so any chance I could convince you to bring along some of the type of questions you think would be good?
On the Slate Star Codex announcement Scott (Yvain) said, "If you're reading this, you're invited", so all are welcome. There are usually one or more lurkers/people who don't really know anyone. No sign-up necessary.
There is no hard time limit, but it seems like previous ones have often lasted like three hours or more if I remember correctly. But you can leave (or arrive) at any time.
I hope to see you (and blumsha) there!
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