Dear CTOvision readers. You know we love you and I hope it doesn’t seem like I’m pandering to you when I say you are the smart ones who will lead us all to a better/brighter future. I have always believed that and now I have some statistics that back this up.
The stats below are from a somewhat unscientific survey. The coupons website Vouchercloud.com published a study that showed 2,392 men and women a series of technical and non-technical terms and then were asked to pick from three possible definitions.
Here are some of the results of this survey:
- 11% believed that HTML is a sexually transmitted disease.
- 27% believed that a gigabyte is an insect in South America
- 23% thought that MP3 is a robot found in Star Wars
- 15% said that software is comfortable clothing
- 12% believe that USB is an acronym for a European country
- 18% believe that Blu-ray is a marine animal
- 42% thought that a motherboard is the deck of a cruise ship.
The good news is that 61% signaled that they believe having a good knowledge of today’s technology is important.
Do I believe this survey? Not really. The results are probably in part due to people giving flippant answers while trying to quickly click through a survey. But hey we technologists need to laugh too so I wanted to share it. And it is a good excuse for me to say something I really believe. CTOvision readers are smarter than most everyone else.
For more see: VoucherCloud Study
