Outdoor recreation trend research: making the possible probable

Geoffery Godbey

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Outdoor recreation trend research: making the possible probable

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Geoffery Godbey

Year:

1980

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: LaPage, Wilbur F., ed. Proceedings 1980 National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-57. Vols. I and II. Broomall, PA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experimental Station: 99-102.

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Abstract

Outdoor recreation research has largely ignored the fundamental requirement of science that findings be replicative. "The only way to establish replicability, of course, is to replicate." Because of this, we know practically nothing about outdoor recreation trends. "Trends, in statistics, (is) a steady change in a variable or set of related variables in a certain direction (for example, a steadily increasing magnitude or frequency of occurrence of a variable) for a period of time."

Parent Publication

Proceedings 1980 National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium

Citation

Godbey, Geoffery. 1980. Outdoor recreation trend research: making the possible probable. In: LaPage, Wilbur F., ed. Proceedings 1980 National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-57. Vols. I and II. Broomall, PA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experimental Station: 99-102.