[nagdu] GDUI Survey

[Tamara Smith-Kinney]

Just out of curiosity, what is your target for the number of hours?  And how
do you, as an owner-trainer define traning time?  /smile/  I will admit that
my own perception of how much time I have spent "training" varies hugely
according to how I'm thinking of "training" at the time, as well as how I'm
feeling about the training.  There have been late summer evenings when I was
sure it was 24/7, since I seemed to be training in my sleep.  /smile/  Oh,
how I miss those days...  NOT!  /grin/

Tami Smith-Kinney

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Of Julie J.
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 6:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] GDUI Survey

Maybe that could be part of it, but I don't think it accounts for the whole 
margain.  The low end is 20 hours and the high end is over 100.  If I'm 
remembering correctly.  Even adding in travel time there's no way the actual

training time could be close to the same.

I think that perhaps defining exactly what is meant by training time would 
help get more accurate numbers, it is not going to be 100%.  that is the 
problem with surveys.  You are relying on self reporting and that is always 
altered somewhat with the individuals perceptions.

I did appreciate the numbers because it gave me a much more defined target 
of training hours that I am going to complete with Monty.

Julie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angie Matney" <leadinglabbie at mpmail.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] GDUI Survey


> Julie said:
>
>>The thing I found the most interesting from that
>>survey was the number of hours that the various programs spend actually
>>training the dog.  I thought it was all pretty much the same, but I was
>>terribly wrong.
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> Actually, this is one of the questions I have. I wonder if "hours" was 
> defined for the survey participants. Some respondants might have counted 
> travel time, etc. Without evidence to the contrary, I'm not sure I believe

> the actual training of the dogs is
> as divergent as the survey implies.
>
> thoughts?
>
> Angie
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