Wikipedia The Wonder

May 11, 2007 – 12:24 pm

Middlebury College banned it, but 46% of college students and 50% of college grads use it.
Twelve year olds point out errors in its competition, while those over 50 are among its smallest demographic — just 29% (Just! 29%!) say they’ve used it.
It’s Wikipedia, of course, and the numbers come from a recent Pew Internet Project [...]

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More Trends In Online Behavior From Pew Internet

January 8, 2006 – 10:18 am

It turns out that the Pew Internet and American Life Project sort of keeps a blog. Here are some points from a November 2004 post by project director Lee Rainie regarding ?surprising, strange, and wonderful data:?

The vast majority of most Internet users (80%) and many non-users (about 40%) expect that they will be able to [...]

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