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An Irony of Cycles


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    As a consequence I've browsed the bibliographic citations returned by Masterfile and Ingenta and categorised each of the items as either:

    1. related to hitch-hiking proper,
    2. loosely relating to hitch-hiking or possibly relating to it if not enough information is available from the citation to decide and
    3. clearly unrelated to hitch-hiking

    This produces three counts, and they are reported here in that order.

    Masterfile for example, returned 242 items total, of which 99 were possibly or loosely related to real hitch-hiking, of which in turn 67 were unambiguously related to hitch-hiking. For Ingenta the respective tallies were 143, 30 and 9.

    Even so, the items that relate to hitch-hiking are almost exclusively stories about or by hitch-hikers or reports of crimes ... there is no research to speak of!

    A similar case could of course be argued for other categories, notably cycling. Namely that many of the thousands of articles that are matched under cycling do not deal with real cycling at all. Admittedly I have not spent the time to categorise those thousands of bibliographic entries, but

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