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18. There aren’t enough changing rooms and showers at my destinations
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In the case of statement 18, regarding shower facilities at destinations, this led to three instances where test persons who did not need shower facilities—and should therefore have answered “Does not apply”—instead selected “I don’t know.” Test person 10 explained that while she regularly rides her bike for shopping and leisure activities, her commute to work is too long for that. Although there are shower facilities at her workplace, she does not need them. Since the statement therefore did not apply to her in her view, she ultimately selected “I don’t know” (“It’s hard to answer that again. Well, there are facilities at work. I’ll go with ‘I don’t know’ for this question,” TP10). Another test person even explicitly stated that the availability of shower facilities was not a criterion for her, yet still selected “I don’t know.”
“At one of my destinations—work—I actually have a shower. But I would never take a shower there. At the other one, I don’t have one. That’s not the reason [why I don’t ride a bike]. The fact that I could change clothes there isn’t a deciding factor for me. But I definitely don’t ride my bike to work. If I were to ride to work, that would probably be a factor. But I don’t ride to work.” (TP11, response to statement 18: I don’t know)
The problem of statements not being answered in relation to the overall question was particularly pronounced in the case of one test person, who reacted with confusion to the final statement—“There are other reasons that bother me”—and asked what the statement was referring to.
TP03: “That’s really thrown me off—are there other reasons that bother me? Sure, there are lots of things—lots of little things—that bother me, but it’s just a very everyday thing that the train is late […]”
INT: “What I mean is, are there any other reasons why you wouldn’t ride your bike for your daily trips?”
TP03: “Ah, it’s right there in bold at the top: ‘travel by bike.’ But with all these questions and all these thoughts, you end up getting totally sidetracked. I think that’s why I didn’t think about biking anymore during the last few questions.”
But in other cases as well, the lack of a clear link between the items and the overarching question led test persons to select an answer option that was not appropriate for them. Test person 05, for example, responded to the statement “I don’t own a (good) bicycle” by explaining that she couldn’t judge whether her bicycle was good; to do so, she would have to take it to a repair shop. However, the reason she didn’t use the bicycle was not because it was unusable or only partially usable, but rather because of the nature of her routes and her habits.