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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">schlimm, </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is a link that includes findings on driver behavior patterns at grade crossings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not read this enough times to fully digest it, but if I understand it, they collected driver perceptions by catching them with a camera while violating crossings, and then they waived prosecution in exchange for the driver filling out the perception questionnaire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They developed this approach because no drivers would fill out a questionnaire about their illegal behavior, on a purely voluntarily basis.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Through this process, I believe they have stumbled upon some of the most revealing insight imaginable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However there is one drawback to this study, and that is the way it is written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my opinion, this is one of the most difficult papers to read that I have ever seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You just cannot start a sentence and take it in six different directions, and expect a reader to organize all of the interlacing stipulations and qualifiers in that sentence: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.bytrain.org/safety/sealed/pdf/clearrpt.pdf"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.bytrain.org/safety/sealed/pdf/clearrpt.pdf</span></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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