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I tried to contact the authors of the last study I posted so that we could ask them to explain their numbers, but no luck. None of them hang their e-addresses out like regular academics.
So here is another study, this one into tourists in Cordoba. As before, the marvel here is not the results but just the fact that such stuff goes on.
Not that I am going to read it, however, unlike the other paper, this one might have some benefit regarding economics in the region. Of course it is already known and accepted the art form has value for tourism, but perhaps something like this study might reveal ways to allocate resources with more benefits in the long run. Who knows. The other type of paper that attempts to get involved with the mechanics of the discipline itself are always in danger of being laughable.
I tried to contact the authors of the last study I posted so that we could ask them to explain their numbers, but no luck. None of them hang their e-addresses out like regular academics.
This one? The first author's email address is visible if you hover over her name (or maybe I don't understand the expression 'hang their e-addresses out"):
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Findings – The results show that the variables age and educational level are determining factors in the profile of the visitor. Also, as the level of income increases, so does the interest in flamenco, a fact that can be useful to determine the target audience for this type of shows.
Lmao. The findings are so obvious. One could have easily come up with it without doing research.
OK, I read this one. The findings are not unexpected. I am a bit annoyed with the "neural network" business, but understand it is fashionable to try to incorporate that as a tool into social sciences research at the moment.
Yet, under all the fancy terms, we are talking about finding correlations between certain variables; pattern matching. They could have done that the ordinary statistical way, I think, since their starting data are just survey answers.
I am following up on the references for the "neural network" approach methodology to try to see if I can get to the bottom of it for my own sake/sanity - specifically the 2018 "Neural network analysis for hotel service design in Madrid" (https://www.tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/979/pdf_93 )
So far it seems that rabbit hole just goes deeper from there
I wrote to Dr Heras-Fernández but so far with no reply. I suspect they must know their numbers are rubbish. If you’ve spent the money to do the research, what are you to do when the data doesn’t say anything?
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