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Can you drive? If so and you've got a spare 2 mins i'd seriously appreciate you taking the time to fill in the following survey:

http://freeonlinesurveys.com/rendersurv ... urd4265727

The results will be included as part of my thesis i'm currently writing on the use of safety (speed) cameras.

Cheers,
Dave

Done. Whats the basis of your thesis?

Oh and welcome BTW!

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Hello, and welcome.

I completed the survey but did not submit it because I was not able to express what I thought and my answers would have given bias where none existed.

e.g

*9) The minimum fine of £60 issued from safety camera results is a sufficient deterrent to reduce speeding.

Strongly Agree
Agree
Undecided
Disagree
Strongly Disagree

Well the answer to me would seem to be Stongly Disagree as more and more people are being caught every year, so it would appear that the fine is not enough to stop people speeding. However my answer would make it appear that I feel the fine should be higher, which I don't.

Another

*19) It should take 4 deaths or serious injuries on a given stretch of road before a safety camera is installed.

Strongly Agree
Agree
Undecided
Disagree
Strongly Disagree

Well I don't think a speed camera should be installed at all, so how should I answer this?

Cheers

Paul

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I agree with gopher!

Me too. Dave, if you're about, let's talk about a proper set of questions...

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Paul Smith
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The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

Seconded

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FWIW, I found four or five of those questions to be "loaded", and so declined to complete the questionnaire. Dave, if you're willing I'm sure that Paul can give you some serious help.

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Will

I agree with the sentiments - if you mean a thesis for a university degree then I would have expected a better phrased set of questions, some of those are lifted from the standard DfT set!

DaveRowlands who is funding your research and what do they expect to achieve from it.

Are the questions just rigged to obtain the answers that you are expected to achieve

Don't I know that name from somewhere?

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Paul Smith
Our scrap speed cameras petition got over 28,000 sigs
The Safe Speed campaign demands a return to intelligent road safety

Iw ould love to fill in the survey, but it does not have sufficient diversity in the questions to be able to express any views other than speed cameras are right or wrong.

Well we already know the answer, but give us a chance to say why.

For example, do I feel that the fine is a deterrant, yes, but then fear of having an accident I would suggest is a deterrant to have an accident, but they still happen!!!

http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page3770.asp

The Prime Minister, with the agreement of the Secretary of State for Transport, has approved the appointment of David Rowlands as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Transport.

Completely unrelated guys i'm afraid!

I'm a 23 year old 4th year student from Aberdeen writing my undergraduate thesis on the use of speed cameras and public opinion towards them, I'd love to conduct an interview with Paul and emailed him the other week regarding this perhaps thats where you remember the name from? If you're interested then please drop me a line.

I wasn't trying to bait or trap anyone into giving specific answers i merely drew up what i saw to be a quick but comprehensive survey i felt the general public would be willing to complete and as such chose not to give open questions as felt this would take longer timewise and therefore put some members of the public off from participation.

Anyway a big thanks to all those who have taken the time to complete the survey your answers really are appreciated. Hopefully hear from you Paul.

Dave - 0306818@rgu.ac.uk

I've just answered this. There are a couple of ambiguous questions, but in general it's fairly clear.

The worst question is the "is the £60 fine a sufficient deterrent?" one.

Many here would argue that the offence it is deterring is, very often, no moral crime.

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Any views expressed in this post are personal opinions and may not represent the views of Safe Speed

To be honest, one of my reasons for considering the questionnaire "loaded" is the use of the misnomer, "safety camera"(sic) for devices that allegedly have directly or indirectly cost over 5,000 lives, although I note the OP uses "speed camera" in this thread.

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Will

Wouldn't you just answer 'undecided' if you were in any doubt about your answer being pro or anti camera (whichever you preferred)? That's how I answered these questions.

Regards

Andrew

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I think most people call them speed cameras not "safety cameras" and I think this is a poly to gauge forum members opinions and mis-quote them.

We have seen some dirty tactics by the plod and media recently.
So call me paranoid.. I won't be completing it either.

I am sorry if it was a genuine thesis. I normally help any genuine research.

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This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

This topic has been cross posted on the Cycling Plus website and the lunatics there are taking part

In which case .. this guy will not get an objective response to his "survey"

I have not completed it as I think there is ambiguity in the questions and a couple of rather daft ones.

I would suggest reviewing the questions a little to get a more balanced result on aggregate.

The other safeguard would be to have a mechanism to prevent multiple completions of this survey and thus throw it into complete imbalance - which would render it as a medium of research as "useless" to your thesis or dissertation towards your first degree.


I would perhaps discard results on this survey and re-do it with a more refined questionnaire

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Only their ideal survey would no doubt culminate with the command:

"ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!!!!"