Codswallop in the Indy.
A new survey has revealed our love for Lycra-clad cyclists, after a study suggested people perceive them as more intelligent and charitable than the average person.
In a psychological study conducted by scientists at Mindlab, an implicit association test examined people’s subconscious attitudes towards different sports and found people think cyclists have a unique blend of intelligence, generosity and the “cool factor”.
Really? Indeed? And there was me thinking people saw them as arrogant, self-righteous, pompous, self-important, sanctimonious and in that fucking awful Lycra and stupid beetle helmets, incredibly twattish. Clearly, I know nothing of cool…
But, then, I don’t care about cool and even less for psychologists and their junk science.
The research, commissioned by the British Heart Foundation to mark their 39th London to Brighton Bike Ride, found cyclists are considered to be 13 per cent more intelligent and ‘cooler’ and ten per cent more charitable than other people.
And that little piece of evidence-free bollocks is why.
They provide insights into people’s beliefs unbiased by any desire to conform to the opinions of others. These results indicate we view cyclists as possessing attributes of which they can be proud.
Even if they don’t actually posses them? I do hope we haven’t paid for this pile of poo.
Actually one of the reasons I avoid these cunts, particularly when more than one is that I’m sure that their sheer self righteous arrogance might reach a critical mass and explode.
I do sometimes wonder if this is the reason why more of them seem to be dying. I mean they now all have lights that could be seen from the small magellanic cloud, helmets and their overgrown kids toys are super high tech overgrown toys.
Science has now proven them more intelligent, charitable and smarter.
What other reason could there possibly be?
Anyone who donates to BHF or spend money in their charity shops will have paid for this pile of poo.
When a charity starts spending money on studies and lobbying, you know they’ve outgrown their worth.
XX Clearly, I know nothing of cool…XX
Join the club!
Inteligent?
WTF!?
Bust a gut, ruin the knee and hip joints, risk Sciatica to get up a hill at 2 MPH, when a Harley can do it just as well, and at 90+MPH, at the twist of a wrist, and THEY are “inetlligent????”
@ Furor Teutonicus.
None of the Harleys I have ever ridden from Iron Head Sportsters to 1.700 Fatbobs have EVER run past 90 MPH, the two exceptions were a modified Buell and an XR1000 and even then a tuned RGV 250 Suzuki took out the Buell at top end…….