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US Does Surprisingly Well in Internet Survey

Posted by Zonk on from the oh-man-we're-good-at-something-awesome dept.

Herman's hermit writes "A new report from the World Economic Forum ranks the US number four when it comes to 'network readiness,' despite the fact that the same report has the US 17th broadband subscribers and 19th in bandwidth. 'While good news overall for the US, which is poised to take full advantage of information technology gains, the report probably won't change many minds when it comes to talking specifically about US broadband deployment.'"

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  1. Don't look at the ranking, look at the scores by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Insightful
    There's no statistical difference between the top ten or so (+- 4%) and the top 25 are all within a +- 10% band.

    Given that online surveys are notoriously bad and need wide margins of error, I would not read anything into this except for the obvious: First world countries (EU, USA etc) are ahead of Chad, Zimbabwe etc.

    Duh!

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  2. Re:Large by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That might be a believable argument if the denser parts of the U.S. had internet access on par with that of Europe.