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Bluenose
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I'm finishing my final year at university soon and I need some respondents for my dissertation. I'm looking to see if there is a difference in sensation seeking (how likely someone is to seek new sensations) between skiers and snowboarders as well trying to find out if there is a connection between injury and sensation seeking.

The survey should only take a minute to complete and all the results are completely anonymous, the only personal details I need are age and gender.

Here's the link to the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ML3YSN7

If anyone is actually interested I can post the results when i finish analyzing them and +k for anyone that helps.

Thanks for your help!!
Apr 11 2013 1:42PM
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LoathesRaisins
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you procrastinated.
Apr 11 2013 1:49PM
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Bluenose
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Yeah it is pretty last minute, done the whole of uni last minute so I didn't see the point in stopping now. It's due in two weeks but the very last assignment isn't due until the end of May and graduation is super late, it's not until November for some reason.

Yeah It's supposed to take 300 hours to finish but I know people that have done it in less than a week. The only problem with leaving it late is that I haven't come out of my room in the last few days.
Apr 11 2013 1:53PM
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miroz
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Done!

I'd be interested in seeing the results.

Best of luck!
Apr 11 2013 2:01PM
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RimJobber
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Done!
Apr 11 2013 2:29PM
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Spinoza
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Done
Apr 11 2013 2:59PM
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feihlination
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dissertation means in anglo-american education what exactly?
Apr 11 2013 3:01PM
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Bluenose
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Thanks everyone that has done it so far, really big help.

You guys call it a thesis? Mines a 10 000 words, got to research a particular topic and collect data for it. Not very exciting stuff

Apr 11 2013 3:08PM
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feihlination
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around here a diss is a doctors thesis, and i am pretty sure that even the biggest last-minute guy wouldnt do a doctors thesis in the last minutes.
Apr 11 2013 4:00PM
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Bluenose
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It wouldn't be anything like that, just like one massive report really with your own research.

Can anyone recommend any snowboarding sites? I've got a serious lack of snowboarders on the survey.
Apr 11 2013 4:36PM
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CheddarJack
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Done!
Apr 11 2013 4:44PM
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stickski
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That's what a dissertation is here in America too, OP's doing more of a thesis
Apr 11 2013 5:23PM
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HolySchimmel
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done, good luck to you! About to start my own bachelor thesis in a few weeks... Really don't want too... Last minute ftw!
Apr 11 2013 5:32PM
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HermioneGranger
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Thesis? A dissertation is usually written to complete the requirements of a Ph.D.
Apr 11 2013 5:39PM
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SamtheEagle
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Done
Apr 11 2013 5:39PM
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chicken
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when you said "trip" did you mean on drugs? Unclear because the post before was about hallucinogens.
Apr 11 2013 5:39PM
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t-roy
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done...a lot shorter than i thought it was going to be

Apr 11 2013 6:49PM
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Steezy_P
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done! Would like to see the final poll
Apr 11 2013 6:51PM
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J-C
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done
Apr 11 2013 6:55PM
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Charliesteez
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love to see the results eventually. Good luck with the paper
Apr 11 2013 7:05PM
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followCam
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Wow...you’re doing your research with two weeks to go. Fuck your life man. I’m sorry but I’m going through the exact same process. I’ve done a pretty good full draft with a week left, and I’m still stressing balls about it haha.

Out of curiosity, why did you leave it so late??
Apr 11 2013 7:19PM
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swanson212
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Done. I snowboard so hope it helped
Apr 11 2013 7:25PM
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louie.mirags
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done... interesting survey, i like the question about movies because i hit strongly agree like you read my mind...
Apr 11 2013 7:48PM
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-benedetto
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do post results man!
Apr 11 2013 7:52PM
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UphillIce
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What counts as an injury? I've gotten a bit banged up and sore, but no bone breaks/acl tears/shoulder dislocations or anything that kept me from skiing the next week. Do my minor injuries count?
Apr 11 2013 7:56PM
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extravert
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done
Apr 11 2013 8:00PM
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Bluenose
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I meant like traveling but that's a good point, I can always put it in as one of the limitations.

And thanks very much to everyone that has filled it out so far, it's a massive help.
Apr 12 2013 9:03AM
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Bluenose
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Because I'm the worlds biggest procrastinator when it comes to stuff like this, plus I had skiing to do.
Apr 12 2013 9:05AM
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Bluenose
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I would count an injury as anything to keep you from skiing. As a kind of secondary objective I'm trying to see if there's a link between high sensation seeking and injury.
Apr 12 2013 9:07AM
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grown-ninja
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Diseration? This for your docturate? Or just a thesis?
Apr 12 2013 9:12AM
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Bluenose
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Thesis, just doing a bachelors. I'm from the UK and it's the other way round here, a thesis is for a doctorate over here. Didn't realise it was different in the US, sorry if I confused anyone.
Apr 12 2013 9:18AM
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Bluenose
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So I've finished analysing all the data I got, thanks very much to everyone that took the questionnaire. It was a massive help and I ended up with 103 respondents overall so I was really pleased with that.

The results aren't really all that exciting, skiers and snowboarders had really similar levels of sensation seeking attributes (how likely someone is took go after new sensations and are willing to take risks to get them).

Skiers had an average score of 22.45 out 32 and boarders had an average of 21 out of 32, the difference is hardly worth talking about and both scores are pretty high which was kind of expected.

I also tried to measure risk perceptions through injury and found that high sensation seeking isn't predictive of low risk perception. People who had been injured in the last 24 months had an average score of 22.38 out of 32 and those who hadn't been injured had an average score of 21.6 out of 32. It's such a small difference it doesn't really mean anything. The only issue with this was that one question on injury isn't the best way to measure someones risk perception.

As a kind of side not I also found that sensation seeking drops with age, although it's not a significant drop.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/sensation/

That's the full version of the questionnaire if anyone wants it, it'll give you your own score and a breakdown of the results.

Again thanks a lot to everyone that answered the survey especially seeing as I left it so late.


Apr 17 2013 8:45PM
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louie.mirags
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good shit..thanks for getting back man
Apr 17 2013 9:09PM
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