So, we’re analyzing the photos taken at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotbike/ over the past year or so. With over 300 images, predominantly of folks riding in Dorchester we see that as a pretty solid data set. These shots were collected in a totally random fashion. Today we’re doing the ethnic/racial make up of our riders. In the future, we’ll review potential bike parking spots. There are about 50 shots of just plain bikes in fairly awkward or compromised parking spots…But that’s later. Today we’re reporting that fully 51% of our riders were identified as Black or African American, 14% as obviously Hispanic (what is the right term for American Spanish origin folks?) 8% Asian and 27% Anglo. So what conclusions can we draw from this? It is obvious that riding in Dorchester is done by all no matter their ethnic origins. The numbers run fairly close to the demographic nature of Dorchester, although the Asian and Hispanic #’s might be a tad higher (and no doubt some of the Afr0-Americans may well be of Hispanic origin). Would you agree that it is more evidence that riders in Dorchester aren’t who the prevailing wisdom identifies as the riding community? Refer to yesterday’s post as to why we may not be seeing a representative number of folks showing up at meetings and events. Why bother? We never get anything anyway. Where did this attitude develop? Is it our neighbors mis-perception? What do you think?
