As a reseacher myself, in psychology, I feel that the researcher needs to decide based on her research hypothesis and implications of her research If she would like to do a indiviadual assessment of one man's professional situation talk to phil (Case Study). That would be her choice but a poor study and narrow implications. If she included a broad perspective of subjects she would gain knowledge of the the effects of her study on both non professional, semi professional, and professional athletes. The study would then determine whether or not fear is different for these individuals and we could then stop arguing about it and no for sure what is going on. The beetle says give us all the survey and ask each participant to state level of snowboarding, races won, championship status, olympic gold medals, coach or whatever and seperate into categories she feels appropriate. Hopefully then the researcher will let us know whether real racers are more afraid then people like us.
Bomber is a great place to gather a broad perspective. From professional to beginner. Surveys are nice cuz the researcher can seperate them the way they choose once they get a stack of surveys. Anyway I gotta get back to my mountain and trench dig. I think Jessica Horton needs to sort this out. I did believe people here were all alpine snowboarders. I guess the surveys will tell who is here and what they do.
Unless Phil already did a survey and i didnt get that memo.
Zya