INSIGHTS INTO THE 'IT DEPENDS' QUANTITATIVE EXPLORATIONS OF THE ASSESSMENT EXPERTISE OF MOUNTAIN GUIDES

The controlled environment of an online survey was used to present participating mountain guides with a series of hypothetical but realistic combinations of field observations and terrain characteristics (Figure 1). In each scenario, survey participants were asked to a) evaluate the seriousness of the terrain and field observations separately, b) rate the relevance of individual observations for their assessment, _________________