• teuast@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    True, but often times there will be studies and stuff of things that everybody already pretty much knows, which can be useful when presenting arguments to, say, legislative or regulatory bodies that, at least when functioning in healthy ways, shouldn’t just be going off of “things that everybody already pretty much knows.” Like there was a big formalized study not too long ago about induced traffic in response to road widening projects, with the obvious conclusion being to stop doing road widenings and invest in public transit and ped/bike infrastructure instead, and everybody in that space pretty much already knew about that, but having the formalized study to point to has still been helpful.