Mountain Bike Safety Survey
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snowy92
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Finished your survey Julian.
I noticed a few of the questions are identical to ones that I'm using for my survey. I don't have a problem with you using them, but just for future reference, it's probably better to be on the safe side and ask for the author's permission.
All the best with it mate!
I noticed a few of the questions are identical to ones that I'm using for my survey. I don't have a problem with you using them, but just for future reference, it's probably better to be on the safe side and ask for the author's permission.
All the best with it mate!
Mywifesirrational
I however am very normal. Trust me.
Anyone else carry a compression bandage for snake bites?
Never used it for a snake bite but it has come in handy as a sling for clavicles.
Never used it for a snake bite but it has come in handy as a sling for clavicles.
freddofrog
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yes 10 char
redbruce
Eats Squid
Yes, although I primarily carry it for the more traditional and likely event management!
Cypher
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And you have both asked similar questions to what I did - 2 years ago. What of it? There is no copyright on questions. It shows an inability to do background research to ensure your research is unique and builds on other's work - rather than duplicating existing work. This is forgivable in a high school student, however your game needs to step up when you are at uni.
thecat
NSWMTB, Central Tableland MBC
And the questions were also very similar to the UNSW safer cycling survey that came out Just after Julies (from memory), thought that was more road/general cycling based
http://www.unsworks.unsw.edu.au/pri...lDisplay.do?docId=unsworks_10539&vid=UNSWORKS (follow the link for peer reviewed version on the right)
Slowman
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done
Plagiarism is another matter.
Unless you assigned your copyright over to the publisher under a contract the copyright remains with you as the author, or unless you were an employee of the publisher at the time, in which case the publisher owns the copyright. If you still hold the copyright you are free to distribute it. In any case under the fair dealing exceptions, one of which is for the purpose of study or research, it can be copied.Hi Julian,
Welcome to the world of researchI hope you have fun. The first job in any research project is to come up with a good question: your job is done.
The second part is to see if anyone else has done the work before: yes, but not comprehensively. You may want to check out these threads...
http://www.rotorburn.com/forums/showthread.php?218921-Help-the-MTB-Community-ride-more
http://www.rotorburn.com/forums/showthread.php?223692-Rider-survey-3-month-results
I published a paper on mountain bike injuries on the Cycling Research International journal (Leslie, J (2011) Rates of injuries from mountain biking: a longitudinal study of all mountain bike disciplines) - I will see if the publisher will allow me to send you the paper. It is pretty basic (because I am weak at statistics) so you shouldn't have trouble understanding it....
That is far too broad a statement to make! Though in this instance and these limited circumstances, as I said, under the fair dealing exceptions of the Copyright Act copying would not constitute a breach. Let's say a question was used to great literary effect in a work such that it was of critical importance to the work, a court could well say copyright had been breached if such a question had been copied without permission.
Plagiarism is another matter.
Art Vanderlay
Hourly daily
Survey done! Should I be worried about copyright if my answers are the same as someone else?
snowy92
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So you're suggesting that before I started reading through the 3 inch-thick wad of peer-assessed research papers currently residing beside my computer (ranging from injury reports to environmental degradation analysis, psychological studies and motivations for mountain biking in Norway - just to be thorough) none of which mention questions even remotely similar to mine, I should have trawled through years-old threads on Rotorburn (or Farkin, as it was back then) to check if a user might have already posted a similar survey? It might be just my opinion, but usually academic sources take precedence over forums.
wombat
Lives in a hole
I think the point was more that it's probably a bit rough to suggest that someone else should have asked your permission for using questions like yours, when you yourself were doing roughly the same thing.
Pot, kettle, that kinda thing.
snowy92
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Though it wasn't just they were like mine, they're word for word copy-pasted, I do agree, and I'm now regretting ever piping up in the first place.
I just took a little offence to the inference that I don't know how to research correctly and that I just duplicated the questions of existing studies.
rone
Eats Squid
I'm trying to give a shit. I really am.
craigjurisevic
Banned
Done. Good luck. My son Jackson went to Iggys. Year 12 in 2011.
craigjurisevic
Banned
BTW I had a crash in Feb and still recovering after 2 x shoulder operations. Will consider a DH style body armour suit in future!
craigjurisevic
Banned
My condolences to you and your family