(Or, How Bad Information Acquires a Life of it’s Own) Some of you may have wandered across a small Reuters or Agence France Presse story this weekend about bicycle sales in the US having reached their highest point since the early 1970s. The publication I work for is interested in anything that might be evidence of demand destruction for motor fuels, which is why I’m chasing this. While I’d like to believe this is true, it turns out the AFP story has some problems. First, the AFP story cites a US Chamber of Commerce study. Wanting to see the data … Continue reading Playing Telephone in the Real World