[CQ-Contest] Convergence and Change Survey Results, 328 responses

[Martin , LU5DX]

Good try John, but...
The sample is way to small and you don't provide any demographics.
Without knowing any details, results are certainly biased if you try to
make this a representation of what contesters think at a world-wide scale.
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of participants in the survey are from
the US and even more the vast majority of them are subscribers of the
cq-contest reflector.

A more accurate representation of reality can be found at
http://cqww.com/blog/2015-cq-ww-survey-results-part-2/


73,

Martin LU5DX


On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 7:28 AM, jpescatore--- via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

>
> Here are the questions and resultsfrom the Surveymonkey poll with 328
> individual responses. In general, more than 2 to 1 in favor of keeping SO
> and SOA assisted. A clear majority also think the level of cheating
> detection is good enough but there is a significant worry that cheating
> will outstrip detection in the future.
>
>
>
> I'll publish the graphs and some look at the longform comments in the July
> PVRC newsletter, but here are the numerical results:
>
> Question 1: Should the major DX contestseliminate the separate category
> for single operators who use spotting or otherforms of technology
> assistance, and just have one single op category?
>
>
> YES                 - 27%
> NO                   - 70%
> DON'T CARE    - 3%
>
>
>
> Question 2: How do you feel about the currentlevel of detection of
> cheating in the major DX contests in relation to the useof assistance?
>
>
> 41% - The level of detection is good enough to support separate categories
> and will be able to keep up with advances in cheating.
>
>
> 18% - The level of detection is good enough to support separate categories
> but will be not able to keep up with advances in cheating.
>
>
> 20% - The level of detection today is not sufficient to justify having
> separate categories.
>
>
> 21% - No opinion
>
>
> 73 John K3TN
>
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