Thursday, July 21, 2005

Knowledge of Tech Terms

This is a fun statistic, as mentioned by Gary Price. Which tech terms do Americans internet users know, on average? Because if you’re very tech-savvy (if you read this blog, you must be), the less you may understand how much people on average know about podcasting, RSS, and related technologies .

American internet users were asked “Please tell me if have [sic] a good idea what the term means, or if you aren’t really sure what it means"*

	Have a good idea	Not really sure	Never heard the term
Spam	88%	10%	3%
Firewall	78%	19%	3%
Spyware	78%	19%	3%
Internet cookies	68%	27%	5%
Adware	52%	39%	9%
Internet “phishing”	29%	55%	15%
Podcasting	13%	64%	23%
RSS feeds	9%	65%	26%

*Pew Internet & American Life Project [PDF], May 4 - June 7. N=1,336 internet users. Margin of error is +/-3%.

On a side-note, on average “young men with broadband” were the most knowledgeable group among those asked.

Knowledge of Tech Terms by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (4)

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