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Here’s a set of statistics compiled at the start of 2010 that you probably haven’t heard yet:

97% of the Internet is wrong, factually incorrect or simply inconvenient.

I had always suspected it was high but this figure was higher than I thought possible. Apparently for every correct piece of information on a subject you can find at least 30 pieces of incorrect information which contradicts or varies from the correct information.

86% of the information you see online is irrelevant.

Next time you are trying to look something up, keep an eye on how much information you read or see which is not what you are looking for. I’m assuming that included advertising too?

97% of mobile phone users do not possess an iPhone.

It’s not as popular as you might think. So much for the hype.

Over 90% of mobile devices use ARM processors.

Over 1 billion mobile devices (mobiles, PDAs etc.) sold each year in comparison to about 300 thousand PCs. Intel provide processors for about 81% of PCs, but British company ARM provide processor for more than 90% of mobile devices. This means that ARM make more processors each year than Intel.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown thinks superfast broadband is 2Mb/s!

And he aims to make it a minimum by 2012! Okay, so it’s not a statistic as such, but I feel it’s worth mentioning. Everyone else in the UK thinks superfast in more in the order of 20Mb/s or greater.  Personally I’m looking forward to 100Mb/s arriving by 2012.

There are almost 2 billion Internet users worldwide.

And that 2 billion mark will be exceeded during 2010. Compared with 220 million US Internet users which means if you meet someone online there should be an 11% chance that they are from the US. No one knows why the actual chance of someone you meet online being from the US is actually 88%.

In the US alone, 100 billion hours of work time are wasted per year on the Internet.

I can’t find a figure for the whole world, but it could well be an order of magnitude greater. You couldn’t even waste that many seconds in a lifetime.

78% of Internet users waste time reading statistics that are of no use to them.

Okay so I made that one up – but it made you think! Now get back to work!