rok Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 A couple of months ago we did an online poll on climbing ropes which resulted in over 1000 answers from 26 countries. Now the results are available online: The results You are aslo kindly asked to join the discussion on what the perfect rope for different types of climbing should be like: Ropes for different types of climbing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 This was posted before. The links didn't work then and they don't work now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Links work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 No, they don't. At least not on my 'puter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodchester Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 not on mine either? Alpinfox...tell us what they say! Cut and paste brother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegetablebelay Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Nope, don't work. Besides, Terminal Gravity said it best when he said: I want a rope that doesn't weigh anything, costs nothing, will hold any fall any amount of times and never tangles. DUH So quit polling and get to work designing the rope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin_B Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 yes, links work fine. to much to post it all here. get a better 'puter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sk Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Nope, don't work. Besides, Terminal Gravity said it best when he said: I want a rope that doesn't weigh anything, costs nothing, will hold any fall any amount of times and never tangles. DUH So quit polling and get to work designing the rope. YA!! I want that rope too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 We spammed people and asked them what spam they liked. and then we made a website with links to spam and spyware that records your IP address and spams you, with forums dedicated to technical discussions about spam. spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 For me the following was the most interesting result- that almost half of climbers don't know the significance of impact force. Since I must assume some of those who chose lower is better, did so at random, it may well be that the percentage who are clueless is actually greater than 50%. The result shows that a huge percentage of the climbers think that the rope with the greater impact force is better. From that we cannot easily conclude that 45 % of the climbing population interprets this property wrongly because a higher impact force can be better in some cases, meaning lower elasticity (for example top rope climbing). However, in most cases a lower impact force is better and therefore this property is often misunderstood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpinfox Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 not on mine either? Alpinfox...tell us what they say! Cut and paste brother. Yeah, it's a bit much for cutting and pasting, but I found the demographic info about climbers the most interesting part. 90% of climbers who did the survey were male. Most climbers are Male!?!?? What a surprise! Sausagefest Slovenia had a (modestly) higher percentage of female climbers, so if you are wookin' pa' nub', you might wanna get yerself over there. Here is an interesting tidbit: In the poll we asked the climbers which climbing activities do they participate in. We gave them four options to choose from. Here are the frequencies: Climbing activites Number Percentage Free climbing 902 95% Indoor climbing 675 71% Alpinism 554 58% Ice climbing 338 38% As can be seen from the data above, a very small percentage of climbers participate in just one activity. The climbers were able to choose any combination of the climbing activities above: Climbing activites Number Percentage Free climbing + Indoor climbing 281 29.49% Free climbing + Indoor climbing + Alpinism + Ice climbing 206 21.62% Free climbing + Indoor climbing + Alpinism 136 14.27% Free climbing + Alpinism + Ice climbing 105 11.02% Free climbing 72 7.56% Free climbing + Alpinism 65 6.82% Free climbing + Indoor climbing + Ice climbing 33 3.46% Alpinism 19 1.99% Alpinism + Ice climbing 12 1.26% Indoor climbing 8 0.84% Indoor climbing + Alpinism 6 0.63% Indoor climbing + Alpinism + Ice climbing 5 0.52% Free climbing + Ice climbing 4 0.42% Ice climbing 1 0.10% Indoor climbing + Ice climbing 0 0.00% Another tidbit: 30 % of the population climb less than 50 days per year, 20 % climb between 50 and 70 days per year, another 15 % climb between 70 and 100 days per year. 14% of the climbers stated that they climb 100 days per year and the rest stated that they climb more than 100 days per year. Such a level of activity is of course possible only because of free and indoor climbing. The average is 78 days per year with a relatively large coefficient of variation 0,7. I was surprised that people climb so much. Apparently nearly 30% of climbers (who responded to this poll anyway) climb 2 days/week or more on average throughout the year. I definately climb more than that, but I thought I was unusual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 In my book, only climbing outdoors counts as "climbing". Indoor climbing is just a "workout". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Kirby Posted February 11, 2004 Share Posted February 11, 2004 Use the links located off to the right side of the main pane. They seem to work even though the text links do not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RokStr Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 I fixed the links to a normal mode some time ago. Do they work now? If not, could you please send me the details of the browser that you use, so I could test it on my own computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluck Posted February 18, 2004 Share Posted February 18, 2004 Links work fine for me - Internet Explorer 6 SP1 Here are the URLs if you wanna paste into the address bar of your browser: Results: http://www.ef.uni-lj.si/spik/_intranet/vrv/vrv.asp?menu=1 Forum: http://www.ef.uni-lj.si/spik/_intranet/vrv/vrv.asp?menu=4&podstran=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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