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My degree research project is looking at why there are so few female ice climbers. Please help by filling in this short survey.
http://tolu.na/ShD1js
Thanks!

In reply to Sally Hudson:

You might get more responses with a thread title indicating that you are after ice climbers

In reply to Sally Hudson:

Is it a problem that there are so few?

In reply to Blue Straggler:

But that might only attract ice climbers. Shirley she wants to know why women who do the usual climby stuff don't then progress to ice climbing? Whereas for their male counterparts trad climbing is a gateway activity that leads to ice climbing and ultimately, if untreated, dry tooling.

In reply to Sally Hudson:

Done

In reply to winhill:

Good point (made clearer by my actually doing Sally's survey)
Apologies Sally.

In reply to winhill:

Mind you the survey is also for male climbers, so this thread is in any case biasing things as the thread title may only attract women...hmm

In reply to Sally Hudson: Done. You might want to take down the other thread with the wrong link at the top, because while it is fascinating to have a poke around & see what other people have said, its not the normal experience on an 'anonymous' survey! Good luck with your research.

In reply to Sally Hudson:

Are there?

ie do you have the initial data to say there are few?

In reply to Sally Hudson:
done

In reply to Bulls Crack:

It is possible to base a study on observations as well.

But I agree that the questionaire needs to be targetting to both genders in order that the sample data contains enough male and female climber to compare against. While there are in general less women climbers than men, you need to compare men progressing from rock into winter against women progressing from rock into winter to be able to make any real analysis.

If you question 50 women climbers and 20% of them progress into winter - what does that mean in relation to everyone else? it might be only 20% of men progress into winter as well but as there is a larger male population in rock climbing (only in my observations) then there would be a larger population of male winter climbers.

In reply to Sally Hudson: Done

In reply to Sally Hudson: done

In reply to Sally Hudson:

Done!

In reply to Bulls Crack:

Personal anecdote. I trad lead (up to about HS/VS). Ice climbing doesn't attract me. I regard it as more risk than I am comfortable with.

In reply to winhill:


That isn't quite right is it? I know loads of men who have trad climbed for years but don't ice climb.

In reply to Sally Hudson:

Done. But sorry, I ice climb too