Study reveals a universal travel pattern across four continents

MIT only reconfirms common wisdom that has been known by humans for thousands of years! When so called scientific research is puffed up in the ivory tower! 😄

The title of their research paper makes it sound so impressive! The authors claim they discovered a "universal law"! So pretentious!

" ... “We might shop every day at a bakery a few hundred meters away, but we’ll only go once a month to the fancy boutique miles away from our neighborhood.  ..."

"... Here we reveal a simple and robust scaling law that captures the temporal and spatial spectrum of population movement on the basis of large-scale mobility data from diverse cities around the globe. According to this law, the number of visitors to any location decreases as the inverse square of the product of their visiting frequency and travel distance. ..."

Study reveals a universal travel pattern across four continents | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Globally, people follow a “visitation law” — an inverse relationship between distance and frequency of visits.

Here is the link to the underlying research link:

The universal visitation law of human mobility (behind paywall)