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"China's soaring online population is now estimated at 137m, second only to America's 165m-210m." When you consider the differences in total populations, that
by greendestiny 19y ago
"China's soaring online population is now estimated at 137m, second only to America's 165m-210m."
When you consider the differences in total populations, thats very significant. Maybe with more actual experience Americans are less likely to over state the importance of the internet in meaningless polls.
- dood 19y agoYes, I would think this poll is significantly tainted by the differing amounts of net penetration [http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm http://www.internetworldstats.com/top20.htm]: United States 69.7 % China 12.3 % If, "80% of young Chinese people believe that 'digital technology is an essential part of how I live'", they must have surveyed a fairly specific subset of young Chinese people, presumably of the wealthy urban kind. As we know nothing about the demographics of either poll, the whole comparison is fairly useless. China's phenomenal recent growth is also significant: the sudden rise of this technology would presumably have a very immediate psychological impact to tech-using Chinese youth. Americans have had much longer to get used to it, and may even be more dependent, but less aware of the dependency.