18% Don't understand the term 'Broadband'

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

LOL

Research by the ISP revealed that 18 percent of web users don't know what the term 'broadband' means while 40 percent did not understand what ADSL broadband is.

Virgin Media also said that 45 percent of Brits surveyed didn't know what a dongle is and seven percent thought Blu-ray was a type of internet access.

The ISP also said that 40 percent of web users don't know what a 'web browser' is and almost half don't understand how broadband speed is measured.

But wait! That's just in Britain!

http://www.cio.com/article/print/490806

[quaxo]

Broadband - (n) A band that plays a wide range of styles. Their speed is measure in their average BPM.

ADSL Broadband - (n) Another Dull, Stupid, Lazy Broadband. ADSL Broadband's just copy other people's songs because they're too lazy and stupid to write their own.

Dongle - (n) A small piece of... something... that hangs from... somewhere...

Blu-ray - (n) Beyond gamma rays... it's the next inevitable phase.

Web browser - (n) Someone who spends too much time in their attic examining spider webs.

[evilfantasy]

75% still haven't found the "Any" key...

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

LOL

[Helpmeh]

75% still haven't found the "Any" key...

(Go on wikipedia if you don't understand that)

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

(Go on wikipedia if you don't understand that)

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[evilfantasy]

?

No stealing bandwidth.

http://atom.smasher.org/error/

[Broni]

Not everyone has to have computer knowledge, but:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/findings.html

Most young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 demonstrate a limited understanding of the world, and they place insufficient importance on the basic geographic skills that might enhance their knowledge.

    *  Only 37% of young Americans can find Iraq on a map—though U.S. troops have been there since 2003.
    * 6 in 10 young Americans don't speak a foreign language fluently.
    * 20% of young Americans think Sudan is in Asia. (It's the largest country in Africa.)
    * 48% of young Americans believe the majority population in India is Muslim. (It's Hindu—by a landslide.)
    * Half of young Americans can't find New York on a map.

[computeruler]

New York!? Really!!??  Its the one by PA and vermont and delaware and maryland and all those!

[evilfantasy]

100% of reports say that 50% of polls can be manipulated 90% of the time according to 75% of the polls taken during 25% of a scientific study.

[computeruler]

That was confusing 

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Almost all Americans I have met think Hong Kong is in Japan.

[computeruler]

Guilty 

[Broni]

Some years ago, I went to a doctor's with my young daughter.
The nurse (I guess, you need some college education to be a nurse) after finding out, we're originally from Poland, asked:
"Is that in Africa?"
I'm not joking. It happened for real.
Unfortunately, poll, no poll, Americans' ignorance is pretty well known around the world.
I apologize to all, who feel offended by my statement.

[evilfantasy]

All we have is Canada and Mexico bordering us and those are easy to spot on a map.

Sadly though it creates a lot of ignorance.

[Geek-9pm]

Once again, I shall not just repeat what quaxo says.
My private definitions:

Broadband - (n) A vegtable related to the Broad Bean.

ADSL Broadband - (n) This is a misnomer. Beans have nothing
to do with A Dull Lazy Sim.

Dongle - (n) A small piece of...  what Dogs leave behind and you
have to clean up.

Blu-ray - (n)A wonderful creature found in blue tropical waters.

Half of young Californians are taught in school there is no point
in having a map beyond the Colorado River
Besides that, they know New York
was taken over ny Neu Joisy.

[patio]

Screw all those Polls and national averages...
My 5 year old nephew knows every State capitol...
He also can find pretty much any nation on the Earth on a globe...
I guess he wasn't called for the poll.
Ridiculous.

[quaxo]

Screw all those Polls and national averages...
My 5 year old nephew knows every State capitol...
He also can find pretty much any nation on the Earth on a globe...
I guess he wasn't called for the poll.
Ridiculous.

Agreed.

I'm American, and I'll be the first to admit that we've got our fair share of ignorant people, but so does anywhere else. These polls rarely vary much from country to country.

[patio]

Sorry 'bout the Kansas comment Quaxo...picked at total random.
No offense.
patio.

[quaxo]

Sorry 'bout the Kansas comment Quaxo...picked at total random.
No offense.
patio.

Haha none taken really.

[mroilfield]

I wish it was a universal law requiring that when the results of a poll are given they also tell you how many people are polled and how the poll was taken.

If there was a poll about how many people liked Starbucks and they just give results like 80% of people like Starbucks that gets people to start thinking there is something good about it.

But

If the same poll results were given with the amount of people polled and where the poll was taken then what the majority thinks would be different.

Example: Today there was a poll taken outside the local Starbucks and out of the 10 people polled 8 of them liked Starbucks.

You hear news stations giving poll results all the time and they make big deals out of the results but most of them fail to tell you that out of the entire U.S. they only polled 2,000 people.

[quaxo]

I wish it was a universal law requiring that when the results of a poll are given they also tell you how many people are polled and how the poll was taken.

If there was a poll about how many people liked Starbucks and they just give results like 80% of people like Starbucks that gets people to start thinking there is something good about it.

But

If the same poll results were given with the amount of people polled and where the poll was taken then what the majority thinks would be different.

Example: Today there was a poll taken outside the local Starbucks and out of the 10 people polled 8 of them liked Starbucks.

You hear news stations giving poll results all the time and they make big deals out of the results but most of them fail to tell you that out of the entire U.S. they only polled 2,000 people.

Actually, through that link Broni provided, and another link on that page, you can view the full report which gives all of the information on that survey they did. They interviewed 510 "random" people across America between 18 and 24 during the Winter break when people have more on their minds than where Sudan is or what the majority religion in India is. It proves nothing. Basically, it says they went door to door and asked if there was someone 18 to 24 who would be interested in participating in the survey, then they interviewed them there on the spot. And there's a perfectly good explanation for those results: All of the smart people refused to take the survey because they were too busy with Christmas activities. 

But seriously, if you read through the methodology, you can see they didn't express at all what locations these houses were in or the literacy level of the persons interviewed. There was no screening process for the participants other than age and sex (to meet quotas for each). Who's to say that, by chance, they just happened upon some of the most ignorant people in the US? The sample is too small to be conclusive. That's something like 0.0001% of the population, or 1 in 500,000, that they interviewed.