RT @BrentToderian@twitter.com
The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1574241410202894337
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@publicvoit
> The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone.
the dutch bike stuff is really nice and i'm all in favor of having solid bike infrastructure, but these calculations of "19 billion saved!111" feel like made up. you can't realistically calculate those numbers, there are so many variables.
you can do these things without additional monetary benefits.
Well you can make these claims but you should also give an uncertainty (which in this case might indeed be very hard to do).
Would be great if it would become general practice to publish values only with uncertainties (1 sigma, 2 sigma ...).
Good chance though that people
would cheat or be sloppy when calculating uncertainties.
@TheSecondVariation
one can make any claim one wants :D
it would sure help to include uncertainties, but as you said, people would probably cheat. just like they cheat now, only without giving uncertainties.
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