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STRAVA Cycling Study

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  • August 22, 2013 at 7:36 pm #19677
    alisonmwill

    Fellow cyclists!

    I’m completing a masters dissertation at University College London on how people use Strava for cycling. If you have 5 minutes please fill in this survey. There is a prize draw with 5 prizes!

    https://opinio.ucl.ac.uk/s?s=25154

    Hope some of you will be keen to participate 🙂

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  • August 29, 2013 at 4:01 pm #753175
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    Anonymous

    Just completed survey.
    Sorry
    Just completed survey.
    Sorry I can’t give you any drastic insight but I guess someone who only uses it occasionally can still make a valid point.
    To be honest if I didn’t have such an out of date smartphone I would probably use it more, it slows down my phone and really eats the battery.

    August 27, 2013 at 9:14 pm #753173
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    johnny2names

    Done. One point about privacy
    Done. One point about privacy on strava- the exclusion zone seems to be set at a fixed distance (500m?). So if you set off on three different routes, a sophisticated person can ‘ triangulate’ your location pretty darn accurately. I would suggest using a slightly different address, just in case.

    Please let us know the conclusions of your dissertation!

    August 26, 2013 at 9:20 pm #753171
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    notfastenough

    alisonmwill wrote:I’d like to

    alisonmwill wrote:
    I’d like to think my masters dissertation will be a bit more complex ;).

    That is one aspect I am assessing, peoples *perceptions* of safety. But there’s a fairly strong focus on privacy and social elements which I am actually more curious about!

    There’s an interesting point here – I didn’t feel that strongly about sharing (or otherwise) my rides, BUT that’s solely because I use the exclusion zones feature, so worry less about it. Perhaps I should have chosen ‘very concerned’…

    August 26, 2013 at 4:16 pm #753169
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    alisonmwill

    If you haven’t taken part,
    If you haven’t taken part, the survey ends tomorrow! Thanks again to everyone who helped out 🙂

    August 24, 2013 at 1:27 pm #753167
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    alisonmwill

    Thanks for the feedback– I
    Thanks for the feedback– I realised the issue with nationality after I released the survey… nobody is perfect I guess ;). Luckily, other than aggravating the English/Scottish/Welsh respondents, it shouldn’t make a big enough difference in the findings. If I were to do be doing a cross-cultural study on cycling habits, then it would be a bigger deal!!

    Thanks again everyone. Still taking responses until Tuesday! And still need more women… !!

    August 24, 2013 at 8:08 am #753165
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    arfa

    Is strava worthy of academic
    Is strava worthy of academic study?!
    I use it to evaluate over the long term whether I am working/getting fitter when safe to do so. I am not sure the survey captures that.

    August 24, 2013 at 3:49 am #753163
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    joc

    done
    done

    August 23, 2013 at 6:50 pm #753161
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    billyman

    Allison, it wasn’t meant as
    Allison, it wasn’t meant as a criticism more of an observation, good luck with your dissertation.

    on the privacy note, I’m not bothered or worried about any side of the social aspect of privacy, but I do worry about my bike being stolen, so privacy on that side of things is a concern, I believe the privacy circle could be a little larger, especially for those whom live in more remote areas, would be easy for a thief to figure out your place of abode if you where the only house in that privacy circle lol.

    August 23, 2013 at 6:49 pm #753159
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    cidermart

    bikeboy76
    The section on the
    bikeboy76
    The section on the questionnaire asks for ‘Nationality'(please read my op) and when asked this on numerous forms it is generally broken down into sections i.e. British, Irish and so on. I have a British passport the country I am from is the United Kingdom, England actually but that’s a whole different can of worms which I will refrain from opening, so my ‘Nationality’ is ‘British’. Pedant

    August 23, 2013 at 5:13 pm #753157
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    Leviathan

    Well ‘British’ is the
    Well ‘British’ is the description but United Kingdom is the state. There is no country called Britain, but an island called Great Britain, though it is not a country either. If you are looking in a list of countries you will see United Kingdom and similarly United States but not ‘American.’

    [/pedantry]

    August 23, 2013 at 4:32 pm #753155
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    cidermart

    My nationality is British not
    My nationality is British not United Kingdom but other than that good luck with your dissertation and I hope my answers help 🙂

    August 23, 2013 at 2:22 pm #753153
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    gazer117

    One small thing i noticed in
    One small thing i noticed in the survey is that sportives as down as competitive events, whereas they are non competitive events(contrary to some choppers common beliefs !!) :B

    August 23, 2013 at 1:23 pm #753151
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    Bhachgen

    You do know that we have main
    You do know that we have main roads in the countryside as well as those idyllic lanes right? Or do you think that 2 lane roads cease to exist after you cross the M25?

    August 23, 2013 at 11:47 am #753149
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    Wookie

    done
    done 🙂

    August 23, 2013 at 11:19 am #753147
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    notfastenough

    @Billyman, agreed, I did add
    @Billyman, agreed, I did add something in the freetext bit re the difference between people who create daft, unsafe segments and race them, and those who use it to set times on longer, safer sections.

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