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Results of technology survey

Regulars in this newsgroup will recall that we asked people to contribute 
to a technology survey on our web site. Thanks to everyone who responded, 
and as promised, we're posting the results back here for the benefit of 
everyone.

If anyone wants the comma-delimited file of all of the responses (with 
email addresses removed), please use the link on our main page 
<http://www.sharl.co.uk/>

Again, many thanks.

Charlotte Carey
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In our survey we asked participants to tell us how they felt about the 
computers they used, and about technology in general.

We've analysed the first 1300 responses, and for simplicity we've 
included only Windows/DOS users and Mac users, who made up the vast bulk 
of respondants.

Almost all participants express feelings towards their computers in human 
terms, with only 3% of the total expressing Indifference. Extremely 
positive feelings (Love) were most common amongst Mac users (67% of them, 
compared to 11% of Wintel/DOS users).

Negative feelings were far more common amongst Wintel users (23%) than 
Mac users (less than 1%). Only a small percentage of participants 
expressed outright hatred for their systems.

The general approach of participants to technology is interesting. 
Though, as we would expect, the majority of responses were from those who 
consider themselves to be positive towards technology (evangelists, early 
adopters, etc.) a significant proportion of the total (15.25%) class 
themselves as Positive Mainstream or below, suggesting the Internet is 
continuing to make progress in the general population.

Early adopters accounted for 25% of the responses, with 41% classing 
themselves as technology 'evangelists' (44% of mac users, 23% Wintel).




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Charlotte Carey                      Robert Sharl consultancy
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