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If You Think Americans Are Smart People, Then Read This by Autopin: 5:29pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Using techie jargons with Americans may lead to
confusion as the country blessed with Silicon Valley
lags technically updated people according to a survey.
HTML is a Sexually Transmitted Disease(STD). Yes! you
read it right, according to 11% Americans, Hypertext
Markup Language(HTML) is an STD. This scenario was
revealed when Vouchercloud a coupons website
conducted a study which was later published by LA
Times .
The study involved 2,392 men and women all of whom
were 18 years or older. In the survey, people were
presented with such words which included both
technical and non technical terms. They had to choose
one out of three options for the word which really
carried the meaning for that word. But what actually
happened that some of them were confused ,while some
of them were confident at their wrong answers.
An embarrassing amount of Americans think HTML is a
disease you can catch from another human being–which
says a lot about the state of both sex and computer
education in the U.S. Other findings, unearthed by the
Times :
First of all 77% of respondents could not tell what SEO
stands for (SEO stands for Search Engine
Optimisation,a technique used by website admins to
promote their website on search engines)
27% said Gigabyte is an insect found in South America
(Gigabyte is a unit for memory capacity).
23% of them thought mp3 as a “Star Wars Robot,”
while mp3 is an audio file format.
18% identified “Blu-ray” as a marine animal (It is a disc
format typically used to store high-definition videos).
42% said they believed a “motherboard” was “the deck
of a cruise ship.” A motherboard is usually a circuit
board that holds many of the key components of a
computer.
5% said they believed “software” is comfortable
clothing, while Software is a general term used for
referring to a computer program.
According to 12% of them,USB is an acronym for a
European Country. (USB is acronym of Universal Serial
Bus,A connectivity technology).
Despite the incorrect answers, 61% of the respondents
said it is important to have a good knowledge of
technology in this day and age.
“Technology is a huge interest for our user base,
and month after month we see thousands of people
visiting our site to look for coupons and deals to
use when purchasing their favorite tech products,” a
company spokeswoman said in a statement. “It
seems that quite a few of us need to brush up on
our tech definitions.”
The origin and veracity of the survey had come under
question by a journalism ethics website. The firm that
conducted the survey, 10 Yetis Public Relations, later
said that it stands by its work and had provided the full
survey results.
The survey is “100% genuine, and it’s a valid survey,”
said Leanne Thomas, a senior account executive for 10
Yetis Public Relations.
Thomas said the survey was conducted over email over
the course of seven days. She said participants of the
survey were given no incentive to respond. |
Re: If You Think Americans Are Smart People, Then Read This by Nobody: 5:56pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Dem don tiff ma keypad oooo |
Re: If You Think Americans Are Smart People, Then Read This by drss(m): 10:46pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Gigabyte = insect USB = disease Hahahahahaha! Na so americans dull like dis? na im be say if i go school for usa, i go comot with first class. |
Re: If You Think Americans Are Smart People, Then Read This by okeyley: 12:52am On Oct 04, 2015 |
this is serious ooooo see this white rats falling hands |
Re: If You Think Americans Are Smart People, Then Read This by persius555(m): 5:36am On Oct 04, 2015 |
Do a similar survey in nigeria and elsewhere and you would know that americans are more computer literate. Not everyone pays attention to technology, a lot of people dont and its global. |
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