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People Ration Where They Roam

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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An analysis of the movement of some 40,000 people suggests most of us frequent only 25 places—and as we sub in new favorites, we drop old ones. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific American's 60-second science.

0:37.2

I'm Christopher in Talia.

0:39.1

Tally up all your regular spots, places you visit on a weekly basis, like restaurants, markets, parks, and what do you get?

0:46.9

A new study says that most of us limit our hangouts to some 25 places.

0:51.8

So every time we adopt a new place somehow, we abandon another one. And this is how

0:57.9

we shape our routines. Andrea Barunkelli, a physicist at City University of London. So we are

1:03.7

actually boring at any point in time. However, over the course of the time, we change the set of places

1:10.6

we are boring in. Barunkelle and his team analyzed the movements of the time, we change the set of places we are boring.

1:12.2

Bonkele and his team analyzed the movements of nearly 40,000 people worldwide, using mostly

1:17.7

anonymized location data from the Sony LifeLog app. And they found that regardless of age or gender

1:23.5

or geographic location, as users explored new places, they maintained a steady diet of

1:29.0

about 25 regular haunts.

1:31.0

I think this is really a deep property of us as humans, of the way we balance this tension

1:38.3

between exploration and exploitation.

1:40.7

The researchers did see a link between how active study subjects were socially and the number of spots they frequented.

1:46.9

People who were more active had a slightly higher number of regular spots.

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