 Poster: A snowHead
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UNIVERSITY RESEARCH SURVEY:
Have you ever considered the reasons you participate in high risk sports? What personality traits do people possess that make them want to risk their life?
You can assist our research into personality types in high risk sports simply by taking our survey; participants are given the option to enter their email address into a draw for a £50 cash prize as an incentive for taking the survey. Should take no more than 10-15 minutes out of your time.
Thanks for your time
Please follow the link if you are interested:
https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/bangor/highrisksports/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Have you ever considered the reasons you participate in surveys? What personality traits do people possess that make them want to waste their time? |
FIFY
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Is recreational skiing a 'high risk sport'? Personally, I'd say no...
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has the OP got a lottery licence?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I don't participate in high risk sports, so clearly am not eligible to do the survey or win the dosh.
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I don't think what I'm doing is high risk. If someone without the experience and ability did some of the things I do, I suspect it would be high risk for them, equally if I tried hucking off some of the cliffs seen in various films, then it'd be a pretty high risk for me.
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I think skiing is less high risk than cycling in London
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Peterkct, for sure. It's also less high risk than drinking too much booze - which, I read last week, kills 1000 people a year in Scotland (which is a lower figure than a few years ago  )
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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I read somewhere last year that per outing tennis is much riskier
Is driving not much higher risk?
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Skiing can't be that bad, can get insurance for that, unlike the occasions when I go for polo lessons!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Q5..how many times per month do you participate in the high risk sport. Many wont be able to answer as the sport is seasonal and most people probably only ski one or two weeks a year....which might mean 6 or 12 tines a month for one month only.
I couldn't be bothered wirh section 3...there were too many questions and options to easily read on my phone
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Fri 13-12-13 0:23; edited 1 time in total
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Q10 doesn't make sense either.
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| Peterkct wrote: |
| I think skiing is less high risk than cycling in London |
I do both but have no desire to enter into high risk sports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Only after excess tartiflette.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Richard_Sideways, that's hardly a puzzle.  This seems badly thought out even by the low standards of such surveys. Rests on a flawed assumption and then gets worse.
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Poster: A snowHead
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The process is fundamentally flawed anyway (the survey, not my tartiflette consumption) because, as we've seen from the posts so far, only those who don't participate in these sports consider them extreme. Once 'inside the scene' they stop being extreme as you understand the processes much more, and are better able to moderate any risks.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Richard_Sideways, well yes, that's partly what I meant. But also, and more fundamentally, seeing "snow sports" as an entity. There is no more similarity between my kind of skiing and those chaps who leap off mountains than there is between my kind of driving and Formula 1. Some snow sports people undoubtedly see themselves as participating in an extreme sport, because they are.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
| The process is fundamentally flawed anyway (the survey, not my tartiflette consumption) because, as we've seen from the posts so far, only those who don't participate in these sports consider them extreme. Once 'inside the scene' they stop being extreme as you understand the processes much more, and are better able to moderate any risks. |
That's very true. I also do track days fairly regularly and I don't consider that high risk or extreme.
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Most of people die while sleeping so...  Yeah skiing, and all other fun things bring chance to get injured or to even die. But is it worth bothering? If it's meant to be it's meant to be. And I rather die skiing, then sit at home 24/7 and wait when time to die will come.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
| The process is fundamentally flawed anyway (the survey, not my tartiflette consumption) because, as we've seen from the posts so far, only those who don't participate in these sports consider them extreme. Once 'inside the scene' they stop being extreme as you understand the processes much more, and are better able to moderate any risks. |
Yup, I do yacht racing, last time out we sort of broke the yacht and ended up in what the survey would class as a close call, pretty big seas going pretty fast about 20m off the South Stack rocks on Anglsea heading straight at them with the helm not responding. The mainsheet had jammed on a gybe (intentionally towards the rocks, was even nastier further out!) and pinned the main so the sails were overpowering the rudder. No big deal skipper cuts the main and yells to person down below to start the engine and off we motor, out of the race but in one piece. Sure had we not had experienced crew who spotted what happened and the skipper on hand with a knife to sort it or the engine hadn't started we'd have needed the life boat but we didn't so as far as I'm concerned its just part of the game.
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