Several weeks ago I thought to host a weekly discussion group or perhaps a weekly game night or maybe something as casual as a weekly potluck get together with the thought of talking and sharing food. I didn’t know what people would most want to attend. Any of the lot would have suited me. So I devised a series of 6 consecutive Wednesdays and came up with basic guidelines but tried to leave what would actually happen to the will of the group. Since it was none of the specific events as mentioned above, I called it Jon’s Social Experiment. And with a little tweeking and better records it could have been more scientific and more conclusive. But I did compile some statistics from the 6 week long experiment.
I tried to invite people from different aspects of my life which at this point can roughly be divided as people from the home school community, people that I’ve met through work and other. Again this is quite rough, some of the people that fall into the other category I did at one point have a connection due to work but it was obscure enough of enough time had passed to not fall under the work category. Likewise some of the work people, I may have met at work but the greater part of our sphere of connectivity lies out of the “work” category. I initially invited 20 people who of course were urged to bring along their family, so that a night which had 5 attendees may well become a group of 10 adults and as many children, so it never felt under attended.
Week 1
Of the 20 invites sent out 5 attended
Home school 6 invited 3 attended
Work related 10 invited 2 attended
Other 4 invited 0 attended
5 New Attendees
O Returns
Week 2
Of the 20 invites sent out 6 attended
Home school 4 invited 2 attended
Work related 12 invited 3 attended
Other 4 invited 1 attended
3 New Attendees
3 Returns
Week 3
Of the 21 invites sent out 9 attended
Home school 6 invited 4 attended
Work related 10 invited 4 attended
Other 4 invited 1 attended
2 New Attendees
5 Returns
Week 4
Of the 22 invites sent out 8 attended
Home school 4 invited 4 attended
Work related 8 invited 2 attended
Other 10 invited 2 attended
1 New Attendees
6 Returns
Week 5
Of the 24 invites sent out 10 attended
Home school 5 invited 4 attended
Work related 11 invited 4 attended
Other 4 invited 1 attended
1 New Attendees
9 Returns
Week 6
Of the 22 invites sent out 11 attended
Home school 7 invited 5 attended
Work related 9 invited 3 attended
Other 6 invited 2 attended
2 New Attendees
9 Returns
I found it to be a wonderful experience and plan to do it again in one format or another.
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