Interesting story about internet use…
The AFP
story linked by Drudge
reports a Nielsen/NetRatings
survery indicating 200 million
internet users in America. There is a troubling, unexplained disclaimer
in the story, however:
| Nielsen/NetRatings, said its survey from February showed 204.3 million people or 74.9 percent of the over-two population of 272.8 million. That was up nine percentage points from the same period a year ago. |
To me it would seem that under-two population would follow the same normal
distribution as the overall population. Culling the under-two segment of
the population from the results could imply that the vast majority of the
under-two population are in homes either with or without the internet,
thus skewing the results.
Or maybe this was just a handy number to use because it already existed.