[Question] new equipment survey

[hamandcheese]

Hello everybody, from Italy
A friend of mine is working on a graduation thesis about disc golf equipment.
You can find her "one-minute survey" here

She will collect answers and post here the result. I think it will be interesting.

Thanks for submitting

P.S. honestly, this is not a commercial, but a market survey, wich is only a part of her dissertation

 

[craftsman]

Extremely loaded questions...

Would you be interested in a device blah blah...

b) no, i njoy the challenge and time spent looking for disc


Lol....i backed out of submitting, but no, im not intersted.

 

[S.Cann]

Take this survey! Very easy!

 

[JC AceHole]

I wonder if it would even be PDGA legal?

 

[ohtobediscing]

Well, that was stupid. :\
I'd tell you why, but I've wasted enough time already----that I could have spent looking for my disc.

 

[nkhoury]

Extremely loaded questions...

Would you be interested in a device blah blah...

b) no, i njoy the challenge and time spent looking for disc


Lol....i backed out of submitting, but no, im not intersted.

Yeah Extremely loaded. I just gave up on that stupid survey.

 

[austin234]

It only asked me two questions lol i told it how often i play and said i dont lose discs and it ended! Whatever theyre trying to sell id never pay anywher near $50 for a disc locating device

 

[j0atz]

Might you be interested in a device able to find the disc in a fast and easy way?

- Yes, it sounds good!
- No, it's challenging and fun to spend time in the bush looking for my discs

How about no because that sounds illegal, and sounds like it would most definitely alter the flight of my discs. It's not that I enjoy looking in the bush haha.

 

[hamandcheese]

hi everybody and many thanks for your comments and notes useful to modify a little the survey. Let me explain better a couple of things:
- that study doesn't care too much about official rules but it is focused on disc golfers need and wish to have in the bag something useful to find discs, just in case... You can read it this way: could you be interested in a equipment.... IF approved and legal? how should it work to be really useful? Considering the cost of a disc but also the "personal value" of your disc, what could be the right price for that device? In a real discussion you could explain better what you are thinking about that, but a short survey is the only way to collect manageable data for a dissertation
- the second thing is: I posted the same thread in a few forums to reach more readers. I really apologize if I bored someone who follow more than one. The survey is always the same

Thanks, again, for your precious time!

 

[blackcatsmith]

I believe this technology has been out for a while,(pet location for one), but honestly who in their right mind would spend money on such a device when they could spend it on another disc?

 

[hamandcheese]

That's true blackcatsmith! but when I loose a disc playng with friends, not in a tournament, I spend so much time looking for it... maybe because it's always my favourite to flyes out from the fairway, maybe because i'm too hardheaded... for me it's more a matter of wasted time than need to buy spare discs. Of course, throwing better could be an elegant solution

 

[who-dat]

Lame.
Landfill it

 

[ohtobediscing]

hamandcheese

The options for losing a disc are wrong. I rarely lose a disc, but if I do[and am hunting for it], its on courses that are the least busy.

 

[hamandcheese]

Thanks ohtobediscing, The meaning had to be: courses with more bushes, trees, branches and long grass. Maybe "busy" was not the right word... we learn a lot of English words reading posts here: I didn't know, for example, to landfill...

 

[ohtobediscing]

^^^Now I understand; that makes more sense.:thmbup: Wish I'd remembered that our euphemisms don't always coincide.

Hang around here and you'll find out what landfill/threadlock/prerube means soon enough.

 

[craftsman]

Hamandcheese, i want to be supportive, especially seeing that youre from an area that needs further dg expansion...
However...with the survey being sold as a school project, i expected less biased questions.

In the states when i was a kid there used to be a very stupid joke:
Are you gay?...does your mom know youre gay?

Answering no lends itself to imply that your mom is unaware that youre gay.

Thats what this survey reminds me of...loaded questions :/

 

[Terry 44]

I only loose a disc if I stop looking for it.

 

[hamandcheese]

Thanks craftsman for your post. Now I understand better also another comment about "loaded" question. Apart my undeniable linguistical limits, I have to say that I didn't pay so much attention to the form of questions and answers that I did suggest to my friend. She was more formal, scientific and precise and I suggested her some kind of irony. I was afraid that readers could feel the few questions a little boring and too serious. Probably she was right... she will be a good engineer!
Anyway... that university has a department to study radio-communication stuff. I'm a new disc golfer and I suggested them a sort of exercise. They said, that's ok for a dissertation. At that point, ask to other players if they would appreciate the device was the only, simple, aim of the survey. I hope this is clearer

Thanks again for your attention and support

 

[craftsman]

While your assumptions would normally stand correct, we here on dgcr are the minority that takes the game a lil more serious.

I dont know how feasable it is, but id be more than happy to answer the survey with her originally intended questions.


Aslo, fwiw (for what its worth), disc finding aids seem to intrigue newer and developing players MUCH more then veteran players; to the point where the need almost seems laughable.

Good luck in everything

 

[hamandcheese]

Great! this kind of information is very clear and precious.
As I said, for her job it was easier to collect data with a survey instead of interviewing players (because we don't have players here!), but I really appreciate your help