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Megan Nelson
Sport climber
Livonia, MI
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 18, 2016 - 07:23am PT
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Hi Fellow Climbers,
I am a doctoral student at the University of Idaho doing a short project for a course I'm taking about survey methods. I'm interested in the climbing population (because I'm a climber too). I have a survey that should take about 5 minutes to complete and will only be used for educational purposes, not for research, although I intend to do some actual research on psychological attributes of climbers in the future. This particular questionnaire asks about motivation and resilience.
If you would please consider helping me out that would be great - I'd really appreciate it! The link is here:
https://uidaho.co1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_aXDPxDdSQpUtvvf
Thank you so much!
Megan
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Oct 18, 2016 - 07:39am PT
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so can you show us the results? It seems like we get asked for our time but never see the results.
Thanks
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Oct 18, 2016 - 01:59pm PT
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I was thinking about doing an Ed Doctorate on climbing. Kids who climb have superior cross lateral integration of the brain's hemispheres. This results in better performance at reading comprehension! This has been documented but not yet thoroughly investigated. Interested in working together? My thesis involves a survey of people who learned to climb as kids. I endeavor to illuminate any correlation between climbing in youth and test scores at school.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Oct 18, 2016 - 02:11pm PT
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chainsaw, beware of spurious correlations- kids who climb might indicate access to climbing gyms, which indicates parents with disposable incomes who are probably more educated themselves....
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Oct 18, 2016 - 02:25pm PT
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The report from the insurance company, it says her name is Sarah. Sarah Broome, she's forty-nine years old. A senior baker in a commercial bakery for seventeen years, she used to throw a sack of flour up on one shoulder, heavy as a ten-year-old boy, she could balance the flour there while she ripped out the pull-string at the front edge and poured the flour, little by little, into a spinning mixer. According to her account, on her last day at work the floor was still wet from mopping the night before. The lighting wasn't too good, neither. The weight of the flour tippered her over backward, bouncing her head on the rolled-steel edge of a table, resulting in memory loss, migraine headaches, and general weakness that left her unfit for any kind of labor.
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chainsaw
Trad climber
CA
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Oct 18, 2016 - 02:40pm PT
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Nutagain, you are absolutely correct. To control the experiment the demographics of survey participants would be a major variable. The the data on that aspect alone is worthy of a thesis project. Thanks for your feedback!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Oct 18, 2016 - 02:46pm PT
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I love lululemon. What free swag did I win?
*click the supertopo thread linke to understand the joke
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Denver CO
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Oct 18, 2016 - 05:39pm PT
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Clicked the link and it said: "Sorry, this survey is not currently active."
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Megan Nelson
Sport climber
Livonia, MI
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 18, 2016 - 05:45pm PT
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Thank you all - I am happy to show you results if you would like. This is actually a quick assignment for a class, however I hope to collect some actual data in a couple of weeks with a questionnaire that is actually a lot more put together than what we just had to do for an assignment. I appreciate everyone helping us out here - we're in the process of trying to build a survey that we would use for a research project that would actually produce data that is publishable.
I am an exercise physiology doctoral student and worked with a professor in my master's degree that did much of the climbing research that is out there in the US. Now I am hoping to look at both physiology and psychology in climbing sometime throughout my career.
Thanks again - I can also post results of this small, brief, survey once we analyze them.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Oct 18, 2016 - 05:52pm PT
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Back in the 1970's, as a Moscow Idaho outdoor store retailer & climber, I was invited to participate in a study of "risk-takers" at nearby Washington State University.
They had a group of us play blackjack & plied us with drinks to lower our inhibitions, so we would exhibit our true-selves as "risk-takers."
The riskiest part of the night was navigating the 7 miles of heavily patrolled highway back to Moscow, across the state line. Luckily, most of the cops were focused on Moscow to WSU traffic, since the drinking age in Idaho at the time was 19 & in Washington, it was 21. Moscow Idaho did quite the party business with WSU students during the 1970's.
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couchmaster
climber
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Oct 18, 2016 - 08:10pm PT
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Mayhaps too many responses to the climbing survey? They closed it down already. From the link, quote: "Sorry, this survey is not currently active."
I would have liked them to have defined what "Good" is. Because some answers that follow would be different for those who feel being "good" is high numbers, whereas other climbers would have differing answers for some questions if they defined "good" like I did: that is, technically proficient (great belay, protection, anchoring, rope skill). I see "good" as a subjective choice that can be radically different to differing folks.
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