[Events] analysis of UMass OSCTC sign ups

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

In response to Asheesh's request, I've added a section about school.  With
the exception of a single Hampshire student and a single Amherst student,
all sign ups were from UMass (35) and Mt Holyoke (13).  Despite the
distance, Mt Holyoke students were just as likely as Umass students to
attend (54% for both).

Obviously given that Mt Holyoke is a women's college, their sign ups and
attendance greatly improved the gender diversity at the event.  If only
UMass students had been asked to sign up, we would have had 35 total sign
ups and 19 total attendees.  There would have been 5 women signed up (14%)
and 3 women at the event (16%).


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> We did a more labor-intensive publicity process for our latest event, so I
> wanted to analyze our sign ups and see if the process helped.  I guess I
> got a bit carried away.  :)
>
> Write up<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UsbhELqO4EWOywylygAUI7m0u3UxbS_7tsAJ7T-LDOc/edit?usp=sharing>
> Analysis<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoHP1ey91UqPdDNhZ0dheldVdU5fbkdtOGNRdmJ3S2c&usp=sharing>(raw data redacted)
>
> Basically - people who responded to my emails were much more likely to
> come, but even those who didn't respond came in greater numbers than the
> Wellesley event.
> Also!  People who listed themselves as having less experience were more
> likely to come as those who listed themselves as having more experience.
>  Having more or less specific interests did not appear to influence
> attendance rates.
> Also also - women were 40% of sign ups.  They tended to report less
> experience than men did and less specific interests.
>
> Caveats:  I haven't error checked this at all so it's possible there are
> errors.  Also it's a relatively low sample size so we can't draw too many
> conclusions (and I didn't bother doing any tests of significance or
> whatnot.)
>
> Let me know if there are other questions you have that I could potentially
> answer.
>
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