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This sounds like one of the billion things correlated with having less money. https://www.citylab.com/life/2012/03/why-people-cities-walk-fast/1550/ https://ww

• aiexplorations 7y ago
  Thank you, that was interesting.
• nostrademons 7y ago
  And to g, that statistical construct that's most commonly associated with IQ but also correlates heavily with general health and economic outcomes.
  • benj111 7y ago
    Tell me more about g. Google is unsurprisingly being unhelpful.
    • Retric 7y ago
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
• spodek 7y ago
  Geoffrey West, former theoretical physicist now at the Santa Fe Institute, found many scaling laws in biology, cities, businesses, and more. One was that people's walking speed scales with city size. Fascinating results. Here's a short article about his book, Scale: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/07/11/a-physicist-probes-an-elegant-law-that-governs-cells-cities-and-almost-everything-in-between https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2017/07/11/a-physicist-pr.... He's spoken with TED too: https://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_of_cities_and_corporations https://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_.... Here are my podcast episodes with him, where he describes his findings: http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/geoffrey-west http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/geoffrey-west. (I'm a former physicist too who walks fast at 48.)
• rosege 7y ago
  I'm not surprised with the London result - they seem the fastest walkers to me.