Larry Dickie: anyone remember him?

I'm trying to write a cave diving paper for my "Research Methods in Economics" class this fall, and the professor thought it was a great idea, because his brother used to cave dive years and years ago. Apparently he was from up north, and moved to Florida eventually because he was tired of taking trips down here all the time. He was an instructor, but I do not know if he was a cave instructor or not. This is atleast 10 years ago, anyone remember Larry Dickie, or dive with him? I thought it'd be interesting to tell my professor.

If it helps, he is a lifetime member of the NACD.

Thanks Sandy, I hadn't gotten around to checking those lists to see if I could find his name. Supposedly he doesn't dive anymore, but my professor didn't elaborate, so it is possible that he might still dive.

Dickie? that reminds me of those fake turtle neck sweaters that were no more than a bib under a collared shirt. it was the cool style in school back in the day.

just curious, but how does one relate economics research methods with cave diving? cave diver visits and monetary "contributions" to local economy and how to figure out what it is? the methods needed to do an economic impact study?


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Actually, the paper will likely be about risk perception among cave divers, non cave divers, and non divers, compared to actual risk rates.

I remember "Tricky Dickie". Does that help?





p.s. I am not a crook!

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Originally Posted by JahJahwarrior

Actually, the paper will likely be about risk perception among cave divers, non cave divers, and non divers, compared to actual risk rates.

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You should look at the Behavioral Decision Theory literature - their whole premise is that people are irrational in many of their decisions, and risk is a big topic in that literature. Simonson, Tversky and others have done work in this area. There's a whole area of behavioral finance these days where risk perceptions plays an important role - look for example at Benartzi's work at UCLA.

A REALLY interesting paper on this never got published, by a guy out of SFU in Vancouver called Bob Krider. Fire him an email and ask him for a copy - tell him I sent you. he had some really cool survey data of hang glider pilots and (I think) rock climbers, showing that in general these people are MORE, not less, risk averse than the average person, and that their key interest is in CONTROLLING risk. I'm sure the same applies to cave divers.

Interesting stuff. It's a great topic.

...And sorry, no idea who Dickie is.

I did a Google search, and got a few "hits". This one looks good, since he mentions NACD.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/larry-dickie/a/616/11b

I dove with Larry Dickie on a week long yucatan trip way back around 1990 but I haven't seen him since.