It’s Sunday, and you recognize what which means—we’re again with the outcomes of one other POWDER Weekly Ballot!
This time, we requested readers a traditional query: Do you put on a ski helmet?
Right here’s what 8,837 skiers needed to say.
POWDER Weekly Ballot Outcomes
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Ballot Highlights
Complete Votes: 8,837Number of Votes on Instagram: 2,350Number of Votes on Web site: 6,487Most Well-liked Alternative: Sure (7,164 votes, 81% of voters)Least Well-liked Alternative: Hardly ever, Relying on the Sort of Snowboarding (265 votes, 3% of voters)Different outcomes:
No: 961 votes, 11% of voters
Normally, relying on the kind of snowboarding: 447 votes, 5% of voters
Ballot Observations
Shock! Most skiers, as you’ve in all probability observed on the slopes, put on helmets. That’s a huge change from the previous, when going helmet-free was the usual. As the results of mind accidents have come into sharper focus, helmets have turn into increasingly prevalent. A noggin, in any case, is a horrible factor to waste.An precise shock: the “often, relying on the kind of snowboarding” group didn’t show to be a well-liked class. Anecdotally, some skiers tailor their helmet use to the type of snowboarding they’re doing. For example, in case you’re going for a mild backcountry tour, you may depart your helmet at residence. That crowd, at the very least in line with this ballot, isn’t notably massive, although.If we had been in Italy, this ballot wouldn’t exist. There, you possibly can now be fined €200 in case you don’t put on a ski helmet.
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What We Might’ve Finished Higher
To not toot our personal horn, however this ballot went fairly properly. Nonetheless, we expect it may benefit from demographic questions. For example, we’d like to see the outcomes of this ballot if it flagged who’re and aren’t park skiers. Whereas loads of freestyle followers put on helmets, their ranks appear to go helmet-free at larger charges than another group in snowboarding. The identical is true about skilled skiers. We may’ve made this ballot extra exact by swapping “Sure” with “At all times” and “No” with “By no means.”
Concerning the POWDER Weekly Ballot
We launch our weekly polls at 3 p.m. Jap Time each Monday. They continue to be open till 12:00 p.m. Jap Time the next Friday, with the outcomes dropping on Sunday at 9 a.m. Jap Time. You’ll be able to take part and see the outcomes proper right here on our web site or by visiting our Instagram web page.
When you’re at it, drop us a line or depart an Instagram remark if there’s a ballot you’d wish to see subsequent. Skiers have loads of opinions and preferences, and we wish to know which of them may land on prime of the heap.
