recurring problem I'm encountering re: average bus ridership is the drastic fluctuations you get--it's hard to be sure if there's an error in the data collection, in my processing it, or if ridership really just varies that much; all are plausible explanations
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Just finished comparing average daily boards between this and last October and the discrepancies vary from 127% all the way to 32%
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About half of routes fell within the 80~100% range tho, so I'm assuming the rest is just natural variation
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yeah. Like, they're insisting to me that the 39--busiest bus in Boston--averages a max of 37 riders at most at PM peak. I've been riding it for ~2 months and only twice been on a bus with fewer than 50 people aboard at its busiest.
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Now, maybe I've gotten systematically unlucky with bunching for two months. But what's a better bet, that the APCs are wonky or that a trained observer like me is that far off?
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