For our breakout group discussions, we adopted the World Cafe format. In brief, all participants split into tables of 4-5 people and discuss the same topic for 20 minutes, then we scramble the groups and continue the discussion for another 20 minutes. We then have a full group discussion to synthesize the various discussions. The advantages of this technique are that everyone gets to participate, and as a result, we are able to address the topic with the collective genius in the room.
Yesterday, we had discussed two topics: 1. How to incorporate 'priming' into models and 2. The role of N in decomposition models. Everyone seemed to really enjoy the format, and the biggest challenge was keeping things on schedule because the conversations were going so well. So, for today's meeting, we've adjusted the schedule a bit to give more time for the World Cafe discussions.
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