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Millennials Drive for 8% Fewer of their Weekly Trips than Older Generations

posted by martyb on Saturday July 11 2020, @03:49AM   
from the how-you-gonna-get-there? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Millennials drive for 8% fewer trips than older generations:

we surveyed 2,225 American adults of all ages. On average millennials drive for 8% fewer of their typical weekly trips than baby boomers or Gen Xers.

Moreover, this difference does not disappear when we control for demographic information, proving that millennial behavior is not just about being young, single and low-income. Instead, what distinguishes millennials are their attitudes.

Millennials are more pro-environment than previous generations and less likely to believe driving gives them independence. They also see driving as more dangerous and want a travel mode that offers side benefits such as exercise or the ability to read or use social media.

The generational difference has profound implications for auto manufacturers.

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• Re:Another crappy soft science study Re:Another crappy soft science study (Score: 2, Disagree) by bradley13 on Saturday July 11 2020, @05:59PM (1 child)

  by bradley13 (3053) on Saturday July 11 2020, @05:59PM (#1019615) Homepage Journal

  I will go cynically farther: how fast would science advance, if we took all the pretend scientists out of it. Social "sciences" are not science. Their studies are unsound, and if they were sound they would still not be reproducible.

  Of course, even in the hard sciences, the bar needs to be raised. There are way too mant graduate programs churning out way too many unqualified graduates, because every school feels entitled to run a graduate school. 90% of the programs are crap, and their students shouldn't even pass undergrad courses.

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• Re:Another crappy soft science study (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2020, @12:52PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 12 2020, @12:52PM (#1019815)

  what's the alternative then? A lot of the social sciences cover things where we have a genuine need for knowledge, banning them would require that we come up with a better alternative which is likely not possible due to ethical and practical considerations. I do think that we need to raise our standards in terms of what acceptable results are, but expecting that these fields are going to be able to get the reliability that you see in the hard sciences anytime soon is unreasonable.

  Or do you think that psychological, sociological and educational research, amongst others, are inherently without value?

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