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Snow report deception is on the decline, due to iPhone application
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The traditional 'ski resort snow report' is on the decline, thanks to mobile and instant reporting by snow users themselves. We've seen this phenomenon grow and grow on this site over the past six years. But new research by economics professors Eric Zitzewitz and Jon Zinman suggests that distrust of traditional reporting has also arisen because of deliberate falsification of data on the mountains.
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Zinman says they gathered snowfall totals from ski area Web sites and then compared those numbers with government weather data. According to Zinman, resorts reported 23 percent more snow on weekends. And the resorts that had the most to gain by fluffing up their numbers did more of it.
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Special credit for 'citizen snow reporting' is being given to an iPhone application linked to
http://www.skireport.com
Anyone used it?
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A snowHead
isn't a real person
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isn't a real person
Ernst Goldsmith wrote:
Anyone used it?
No I've found something called 'snow reports' on a website known as Snowheads which seems to give detailed, accurate an up-to-date information on how conditions ski from the majority of resorts that I am interested in.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Ernst Goldsmith
... any relation??
I hardly think that Apple can credit themselves or be given credit for this.... there may be just a few other ways to get accurate info
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bertie bassett
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Ernst Goldsmith
, IME, the reported depths are usually reasonable, although clearly cherry picked when they need to be. I imagine in the U.S. there's more fluffing going on. Maybe just due to the advent of the internet and "home-p0rn".
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