[Yef]

Originally posted by dogscoff:

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but when you find someone {..on the web..} from another country, odds are he is from the educated elite, or at least the upper middle class.

Your argument doesn't really hold, because there are plenty of other countries have equal or higher internet uptake than the US.

According to the CIA world factbook 2002:
US: 165.75m internet Users out of 290m total population = approx 57.2%

Here are just some other countries at similar levels:

Canada: 16.84 out of 32.2 = 52%
Australia: 10.63 out of 20 = 53%
South Korea: 25.6 out of 48.2 = 53.1%
UK: 34.3 out of 60.1 = 57.1%
Norway: 2.7 out of 4.5 = 60%
Netherlands: 9.73 out of 16.1 = 60.4%
Switzerland: 4.82 out of 7.3 = 66%
Denmark: 3.37m out of 5m = 67.4%
Sweden: 6.0 out of 8.9 = 67.4%

As you can see, by your theory, it's the scandinavians who should get the worst reputation for Online cretins.

If anyone has more up to date/ more commprehensive figures than these, please post them.

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Actually, you prove my whole point.
US population with internet access: 165 millions
Combined total of countries that you mention: 113 millions

So the combined population with access from those countries doesn't even add to a total equal to the US pop with internet services, and since we think of people individually by each nationality they represent....

Just to put an example according to your numbers, you are likely to find 10 Americans for every Canadian Online, which of course give you odds of finding 10 American retards per every single Canadian in the same "group".

Thanks for backing my argument with numbers.

[ April 08, 2004, 19:08: Message edited by: Yef ]