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nearlywhite said:Thanks for the replies, the caving Vs mine exploration you can put down to my unconscious bias as my own exploration is both (you can blame extended periods of time in Derbyshire and North Wales) and have a tendency to use cave rather than underground trips. It's a good point and one we'll try to take on board - I do get others to check these before they get sent out.
With regards to Huge's comment it is very fair, we just wanted a rough average and originally it was about 6 questions. The problem was each question didn't really get to the rough average answer and so we just ended up picking one. Would be really interested if people could suggest improvements to wording as that really does help.
Thanks to everyone so far for giving so much input, it will make for a good report!
Most of us I think ( well me at least...and I'm 99.9% mine explorer ) take "caving" in this context to be whatever we "do" underground or associated with it....caving, mine exploring, other underground exploration, quarries, socialising, club activities etc
Its only a snapshot in time so let's not criticise it too much
I absolutely *hate* consumer surveys that I seem to get bombarded with every time I buy a packet of crisps or a light bulb or a washing machine or *anything* as they are merely marketing / spam tools... but what I do like is the "give your answer on a sliding scale of one to ten with one being SHITE and ten being EXCELLENT" type of answers.
Quick, flexible and very easy for the surveyor to collate large amounts of data very quickly and produce a bar chart / graph / venn diagram very quickly.
When all you want is a snapshot to produce a trend its the quickest way I reckon.