Author tries to find some anecdotes that would verify his claims, without actual data of course. I would like to know for example, what is the actual distribut

Author tries to find some anecdotes that would verify his claims, without actual data of course. I would like to know for example, what is the actual distribution of money people paying for a cellphone (without contract) in different countries? Or the distribution of topics that people are looking in Facebook and elsewhere in Internet. Answer would probably not be a Gaussian but quite different than what author claims.