And I heard about this study where, just by taking the average of the speed at which people walk and the number of steps they take in a certain distance, you can tell not only the population of any city, but how many hospitals and theaters and libraries there are. You can determine the number of cultural events, sports teams, the quality of the schools, the average income, and even how healthy the population is.
I don’t know if people walk a certain speed because of how they live, or if the way you live sets your walking pace, but it is sort of freaky if you think about it… So think about it…
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I can’t see how they can calculate that from the pace people walk at. Else you could apply that to anything. How is it even measurable. Were they stoned by any chance?
The only thing you could loosely calculate is based on my hometown where everyone retires there and walks at snails pace is that there are a lot of funeral directors.
That is just proving my point
All it tells you is my hometown is full of old people and people with business acumen recognise that. I’m not sure it could tell you how many people live there from how fast they walk.
Unless we have been implanted with tracking devices. That’s quite possible, our vaccines are probably not to ward off illness but to implant tracking devices. I’m getting all 1984 here
I don’t make this stuff up
That’s right, blame the squirrels ;-D
Or the radio
It hurts to think, sometimes.
All the time
Well, I guess studies are the same as statistics – you can manipulate the figures to be anything you want them to be 🙂 I do love the weird and wonderful stuff of NPR and its’ ilk. I have to make do with podcasts, and the PRX programme “This American Life” has enlightened me on many aspects of human nature. Keeps me awake on long bus journeys!
Garison Keelor puts me to sleep, but I love it
I do like his “Writer’s Almanac” – so short the pesky music wakes me up. I like “Prairie homecoming” too, and have certainly zoned out at points! I listen to the “Classic Tales” podcast to get to sleep. Put timer on for half an hour so never ever hear how the story turns out. Still trying to get to the end of episode one of “Around the world in a few days”. But the “Moth” podcast, now that has it all. I laugh, I cry, I get a seat to myself on the bus.
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um, that’s way to deep man!
I do deep now and then
“Whaaaat’s your favorite colour?” “Bue. No, green, AAAAAAaaaaa!”
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Sigh – “Blue” – ruined that joke.
Should have gone with maroon
Ha
You look “mature” enough to have gotten that Art but pehaps I should mention for your newer readers, that’s a paraphrased quote from Monty Python were the Knights of Arthur are tested by a troll to be allowed to cross a bridge. They had to correctly answer three questions and one knight as you can see could not even get his fav color right so he was flung off the side of the bridge. The comparison being, of course that they presumed you could tell the “make” of a man by such a random characertistic as his fav color OR how fast he walks, in the present argument. Thank you for this short intermission for zanity,we shall return you to regular programming now.
Or should that be “zaniness”?
Either way
Oh,I got it… But maroon is still funnier
Just because you heard it on NPR doesn’t mean it’s true. There, I’ve thought about it. Now I’m going to forget about it.
No… You aren’t… And they tested the guy.
I guess that means that during rush hour, when people walk faster, the city has a different number of hospitals and museums.
It is taken from an average of some sort
Nope, it just means there are less people to go to them … oh, wait …
Ha