Dear all,
I sympathize with your frustrations in relation to these type of studies, it appears you as skydivers have been done to death with them. This study is a validation of a new measure, which involves people answering the new one alongside older measures, hence the long winded nature of it. The questions themselves I have nothing to do with and I agree they do go on a bit. This study, once complete will be of little interest to any of the people who took part in it, they will simply be helping consolidate something which can be used more purposefully in the future. I am aware of several studies which have used skydivers as their main study population recently, I shall do what I can within my (very minimal) powers to have the studies disseminated down to the people who took part, which seems only fair to me.
Again, sorry to use you guys as a 'risk' population again, it seems academics haven't been the most forthcoming in explaining things. If however you do have a spare ten mins and can stomach the tedium of another questionnaire I would very much appreciate it if you could complete the study. I will make sure the results (although a long way off) are made public to the people who took part.
If you would like to contact me directly regarding this study please do: mileshill540@hotmail.com
Many thanks
Miles Hill