David Marlin decided to study us :)

milliepops said:
if the questionnaire was designed to assess peoples confidence in their answers though, as opposed to whether they answered correctly, then it almost doesn't matter if the questions are directly linked to practical horse care...?
Haven't seen the original study, as ester pointed out the Hartpury one must be different
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Ah there were 2 papers presented at the conference. The lead author of the 2nd one was DM after all.

https://hartpury.pure.elsevier.com/...insight-into-their-equine-related-knowledge-o

The exaggerated "extremely alarming" conclusions are still nonsense though! You could probably replicate this for pretty much any skill - as has been said before by many people, this is a very common phenomenon.
 
Ambers Echo said:
Ah there were 2 papers presented at the conference. The lead author of the 2nd one was DM after all.

https://hartpury.pure.elsevier.com/...insight-into-their-equine-related-knowledge-o

The exaggerated "extremely alarming" conclusions are still nonsense though! You could probably replicate this for pretty much any skill - as has been said before by many people, this is a very common phenomenon.
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Yes, I assume that it must have been the same survey used for both as same number questions and same number of 'horsey' respondents, but could just be a coincidence I suppose.
 
I got to number 2 on the short version he has posted today, re. how much salt is lost, he doesn't qualify which salt :p.
 
Very true! I was also curious about the garlic question in the one above....safe in what sense? As in before you kill them? Because in my book the answer to that question is zero.
 
the confo guys will also be keen that the definition of uphill was spot on too, I'm still working on getting my head round that one!
 
Oh I never thought of that one being about conformation, I assumed uphill movement, but you're right, it could have been uphill conformation. I'm pretty certain that it wouldn't be the nerdy engineering response that I would give in any case 😜
 
As such groups have a large USA contingent there seems to be a lot of bum high functionally uphill AQHA, that still look downhill to me ;)
 
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