 Poster: A snowHead
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A Canadian researcher, Dr Simon Hudson of Calgary University, is looking into the reasons why females make up such a small fraction of the heli-skiing market, and has a couple of heli-skiing trips to give away in the process. He is seeking to understand the motivations of existing female skiers, their perceived constraints to heli-skiing, and how they could negotiate their constraints to participate in this adventure tourism activity....As a reward for filling in the survey, your name will go into a prize draw when all the data has been collected, and you will have the chance to win one of two 4-day heli-skiing holidays, courtesy of Canadian Mountain Holidays.
The survey can be found at http://www.canadianmountainholidays.com/survey/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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[high pitched voice]I'm a lady.[/high pitched voice]
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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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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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I filled in the questionnaire, but I don't know that I'd go even if I won - not good enough skier. If I win maybe I'll auction the trip to cross-dressing Snowheads... the competition night could be fun.
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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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awesome! Thanks for posting!
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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I thought the questions were rather badly phrased and confusing though
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firebug, yes they are. This was not a professionally composed questionnaire. I can neither agree nor disagree with questions about having my children looked after (they're all old enough to look after themselves). It's simply irrelevant to whether I go heli-skiing. So I ticked "strongly disagree" that concerns about my kids would stop me going heli-skiing, which sounds as though I would happily leave them wandering the streets with a bottle of cold tea and runny noses.
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Nice one el Hen  - fingers crossed.
pam w - yeah, you're right about it not being very professionally composed. The one that erked me was "I am likely to get cold and wet heli-skiing". I mean, really! It's a bit patronising.
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Could just be a marketing ploy to get traffic to their web site, me cynical!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The one that erked me was "I am likely to get cold and wet heli-skiing". I mean, really! It's a bit patronising.
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The thing that irked me was not the patronising aspect so much as the lack of logic and fit between the questions and the answers. On this example, "I am likely to get cold and wet heli-skiing" If you tick "disagree", does this mean you won't get cold, or that you will, but you won't care? Or if you "agree", does this mean "Yes, and that's why I won't go heli-skiing" or "yes, but who cares?" There are loads of questions like that. I suppose you just have to go for "neither agree nor disagree".
Of course it's a marketing ploy - all these competitions are marketing ploys, but as long as there are real winners, so what?
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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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| I thought the questions were rather badly phrased and confusing though |
Sad, the questionare was "designed" by a professor in the Calgary University!!! 
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The thing that irked me was not the patronising aspect so much as the lack of logic and fit between the questions and the answers. On this example, "I am likely to get cold and wet heli-skiing" If you tick "disagree", does this mean you won't get cold, or that you will, but you won't care? Or if you "agree", does this mean "Yes, and that's why I won't go heli-skiing" or "yes, but who cares?"
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Maybe it's given by your view on whether it would stop you from heli-skiing. So if you agree strongly are you saying "ooh, it's going to be too cold and wet and my hair will frizz" and if you disagree strongly are you basically saying "bring it on!"?
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You know it makes sense.
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| Sad, the questionare was "designed" by a professor in the Calgary University |
A professor of History, perhaps?
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