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High-Risk Sport Research

D K
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Hello All, Interested in the science behind participating in high-risk sports? Why not spare 15 minutes of your time to help advance the research in the field. We are looking for participants who take part in sports such as rock climbing (trad/sport/boulder). Follow the link below and answer the questionnaire. It only takes about 15 minutes to complete and you will be entered into a prize draw to win ยฃ50! https://survey.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/highrisk/ (please copy and paste into your browser if link does not work) The research is being conducted to examine the psychometric properties of a newly developed inventory for high-risk sport participants with the long-term aim that it could serve future research in the field. Particularly as research regarding the psychology behind high-risk sport participation is currently limited. As part of the questionnaire we will ask you to provide the contact information of an individual that you participate regularly with in your sport (i.e. an informant). The informant you provide is essential to establishing the psychometric properties of the inventory. We do understand that you might feel uncomfortable with disclosing other people contact details, but we ensure that the data will be kept strictly confidential and we will not disclose the entered information to anyone. If you could pass on the link of the study ( https://survey.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/highrisk/ ) to anyone you know who participates in such activities it would be greatly appreciated. If you have any questions or query's about the study then please contact me on [email protected] Many thanks for your time and participation.
there's no high risk... high risk is only for free soloers
In my head, "risk" means the chances of something going wrong, "consequence" is what happens if it does, and the product of the two would be the "danger" of the activity. In those terms, normal rock climbing is very low-risk (especially free soloing) compared to football or something, but the consequences, and possibly dangers, are high.
Sune Hermit
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I started to fill out the form. But I stopped when I was asked to fill in the contact details of an informant (climbing partner) - I donยดt think it would be OK for me to enter his details including emailadress etc in a survey without him knowing it. I think quite a few others feel this way, and I think it will limit the number of answers you will get. Why is it important to get the emailadress etc of my climbing partner? Makes you think this is a scam site set up to get peoples emailadresses... 
Josh Goulden
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I would like a decent reason as to why they need my climbing partners email ect. ? As has already been mentioned, makes me think its a scam.