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This reminds me if a guy who would never return my greeting in the Phoenix park, Dublin. We were the only two runners in the park at seven am most days during the most severe Irish winter in sixty years. You'd think the mutual solidarity that would engender would at least prompt a nodding gesture... but alas no. I gave up after about five attempts. Maybe the sight of someone on yaktraxs in the dark in a big urban park was a little creepy?
ReplyDeleteI'm certain your research findings will shed light on this critical but under-studied field of running behaviour.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in your choice of an odd numbered Likert scale. I might have gone with an even number of options, to force the respondents to take a creepy or not creepy position. None of this neutral 'maybe creepy' 3.
@ Westley -- that's exactly what I'm talking about! Especially in conditions like that where you are the only two out.
ReplyDelete@ Runshorts -- d'oh! You caught me with bad survey design. I'm a former psych major, I should know better than that.