Fixed Gear Bike Study

BFC has just finished a scientific experiment showing a robust association between High School Physics grade and number of times one has ridden a fixed gear bike.  The data suggest that a weak understanding of momentum and properties of moving bodies more generally as measured by High School physics grade is positively associated with number of times one has ridden a fixed gear bike.  At the extremes, people who own fixed gear bikes (> 200 rides) had terrible physics grades, and only people who had never ridden fixed gear bikes had perfect physics grades.  Here are the data shown with a Lowess smoothing curve.n

Posted by steve on Jan 6th, 2010 and is filed under Bluefish Canoe. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
  • lakser
    how has only one kid in that high school not have riddent a fixed gear. fixed gear bikes are the new roller blades!
  • Sloppyjoe
    Because he's never been outside. Just look at his grade.
  • Pete LaVerghetta
    When I saw this in my RSS feed I thought it was gonna be 'number of press mentions of fixed gear bikes over time' but this is better.
  • Amazing, Steve!
  • Allan
    Is this fixed bike riding up to and through HS (implying that bike riding decreases your physics ability) or afterwards (understanding of physics decreases your desire to ride a fixed-gear bike)?
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