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Description:This report was funded by the National Weather Service and provides an evaluation of alternative graphics to represent rip current risk, based on the results of a national on-line survey and focus groups of water rescue and other professionals in coastal North Carolina. There were several goals we sought to achieve: 1) to identify the respondents’ understandings of what each graphic is showing and how they anticipate it would influence their decision-making, 2) to distinguish the element or elements of each graphic that are most and least useful in understanding likelihood of hazardous rip currents, and 3) to determine the graphic or graphics they believe will be most and least effective in presenting rip current risk. Just over 1,080 individuals started the survey and 505 people responded to all questions. It is the 505 responses that were analyzed.
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