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uptown_gargoyle t1_j6d0utx wrote

Reply to comment by Jakdracula in south Philly burn out contest? by mamabrew

>Police scanner says there’s about 500 of them.

This aspect is fascinating. Studies show that Americans are spending more and more time alone, making fewer friends, etc. The ability for some people to gather up 500 likeminded individuals and do something as coordinated as this (not super coordinated, but clearly still somewhat coordinated) is a significant outlier to that trend.

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nolandeluca t1_j6f0fkn wrote

I feel like those studies don't include cities

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uptown_gargoyle t1_j6f4wn8 wrote

That'd be unusual, but the one I used to form my opinion (the most recent peer reviewed study on Americans' time spent alone, conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) does include cities.

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/the-economy/macroeconomics/a-twenty-first-century-of-solitude-time-alone-and-together-in-the-united-states

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whymydookielookkooky t1_j6gp8e4 wrote

Before even looking at it I doubt the type of person taking part in illegal burnout meetups is also signing up for scientific studies.

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