Re:Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis
by bombcar on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:50PM
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Way WAY too many "studies" are done this way - the famous "50% can't afford a $500 unexpected expense" study for example is a survey asking people if they could spend $500 without worry.
It's cheaper, but it's not better. True investigations watch results over time and compare actual items (that still have to be determined to be significant).
There are very easy and very concrete ways to measure if businesses saw a drop in spending. You could look at tax receipts for the area, for one.
Instead they chose to ask peoples feelings about sales numbers...