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micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility

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Ebikes, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, longboards, eboards, motorcycles, skates, unicycles, heelies, or an office chair: Whatever floats your goat, this is all things micromobility!

"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

micromobility is seen as a potential solution to moving people more efficiently around cities"

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Compared with non-active travelers, the cyclists had a 19 percent lower risk of all-cause dementia,

They had multiple study groups, including walkers. Walkers, cyclers, and mixed (walking and inactive) were the "active travelers" groups.

The article did not call out that they found cycling better than walking, only that

association between active travel mode and incident dementia and brain structure

The title and quote from the researchers imply cycling is better than other forms of regular moderate exercise, but provides no supporting statistic for cycling being better. The only statistic quoted was that exercising is better than not exercising.

If the article is going to suggest cycling is better than other activities, they should quote the statistic implying that it is.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eh? The graphic shown prominently in the linked summary article suggests that cycling is much better than walking. And this seems plausible to me - cycling is not just exercise, it requires quick thinking, balancing, interacting with traffic, judgements regarding risk, speed, efficiency, etc. .

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Haha! Yeah, my bad. I read most articles in text mode; I didn't see the graphic until I turned that off.

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