Survey on Twitching ...

If you have opinions on twitching that can't be answered by the survey, please do leave them on this thread as the purpose of the survey is to gain some background info on how people perceive it in terms of its usefulness, effectiveness and humaneness. It's part of a more scientific based study, but equally as relevant as the empirical data.
 
I answered but thought the questions were not well formed. Temperament was non fitting for my herd which cannot be described as lazy nor excitable. They are trained and relaxed and non need twitching because of this.
 
Hello, I've just filled in the survey.

Your daughter might not like this feedback - but if she's at University then she should be able to take it.

The survey is poor: there are spelling errors, factual errors as a previous poster has noted, and speaking only as a layperson rather as an informed statistician it appears to me that the survey has been constructed based on an assumption that there are three 'types' of people 1) those that hate twitching regardless 2) those that will do it and 3) those that thought it was cruel until they read the endorphin explanation in the survey.

If she really wants to gain some half-useful data, in my humble opinion, she should start again without the errors and perhaps put a little more time into studying how to construct a proper survey.

And - I'm not typing this because I'm a mean old bully, but because it strikes me that far more people will complete a survey if it is clearly a good, well-constructed piece of research.
 
be positive said:
I tried, but deal with more than 1 horse so couldnt as it would not let me leave questions unanswered .
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As above, so my answers to the specific questions are too vague to be of help, but tried putting an explanation in the comments box.
 
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I'm sorry but I couldn't really understand the format of the survey. Is it asking whether we knew how twitching worked and then still would/wouldn't use it? I also don't understand what bearing the temperament of the horse has to do with anything? My current horse tends to be lazy but has never needed to be twitched (the only thing I can't do with him is pull his mane, for which he'd need to be sedated so I spend ages cutting and thinning it to try to make it look like it is pulled). Previous horse was v willing and forward, also never needed to be twitched.

I think the survey needs an explanation of what your daughter is actually trying to find out and needs rewording. Is she trying to link horse temperament with the need for twitching and the owner's view of it?
 
Thanks those who have given it a go. Your feedback is appreciated, also on the shortcomings of the survey. This will be passed on, it's still early days so time to improve things for a better result. (I'm just the messenger as she isn't a HHO member).
 
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