12-04-2017, 01:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-04-2017, 01:05 PM by danbrotherston.)
(12-04-2017, 01:00 PM)Section ThirtyOne Wrote: And we wonder why people often think cyclists have bad attitudes...
(and this is coming from a avid cyclist)
The thing is, they don't wonder, they take the "bad attitude" (as well as any other perceived slights) as intrinsic without trying to understand why or what the actual experience cycling on our roads is, while assuming they do because one of a) they bike on the weekends on trails they drive too b) They drive on the roads, so biking is the same, c) they occasionally see bike lanes so have why wouldn't cyclists bike there all the time. It's the fundamental attribution error combined with the Dunning Kruger effect.
Of course, that's only average drivers. There are some who are actually quite antagonistic towards cyclists, for what reasons, I have no idea--but those are the minority, thankfully.