IPad Has 97% and Above of Tablet Market Worldwide

I have yet to see anyone using any tablet other than the iPad. Looks like my anecdotal observations are accurate. Read what Business Insider has to say about the tablet market:

It’s been more than a year since Apple’s iPad started shipping, and around the world, it’s still overwhelmingly the only tablet that matters.

ComScore just released a bunch of stats about traffic consumption on non-PC devices in 13 countries, including tablets, smartphones, and other devices, such as the iPod touch.

We analyzed comScore’s data to focus just on tablet usage, and charted the iPad’s traffic share in each country. It was 95% or higher in 12 of the 13 countries, with Android the second-place finisher in most countries (and “other” in Canada, home of RIM).

Of note: China isn’t one of the countries reported by comScore in this data. That could be a market where Android does particularly well. We’ll see. And, of course, plenty more competition is on the way from the likes of HP, Microsoft, etc. But for now, the iPad stands alone.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-ipad-traffic-2011-6?utm_source=Triggermail&utm_medium=email&utm_term=SAI%20Chart%20Of%20The%20Day&utm_campaign=SAI_COTD_062311#ixzz1Q8lqyRMC

–From Business Insider

Statistics Sparkle with Hans Rosling

If you haven’t discovered Hans Rosling’s Wonderful World of Statistics, watch this. He is to the dry staid world of numbers what Walt Disney is to theme parks. I discovered him through Timethief over at One Cool Site. What a find. It’s this kind of sharing that is the true power of the blogosphere. You can find any information you want, out there for free, if you spend a bit of time looking.

 

Sunday Stats: Who Uses Twitter

From a Pew Research poll, here’s the answer:

Who uses Twitter?

Sunday Stats: Homeowners Still Underwater

Thirty percent (30%) of homeowners say the value of their home is less than what they still own on their mortgage. That’s the lowest level measured since August but consistent with findings since April 2009.

Sunday Stats: Science Jobs

The average salary for Physical science post-doc graduates who worked in academia in 2006 was $40,000. Those who entered non-academic employment were paid on average $55,000. I won’t pass judgment. Too many factors other than money that compensates an individual in the job market.

Sunday Stats: Is America Too Politically Correct?

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% of Adults believe America today has become too politically correct, while just 23% say the country is not politically correct enough. Eleven percent (11%) say the balance is about right.

What do you think? Me, when they start removing the American flag from a veteran’s monument over some PC issue–yeah, we’ve gone too far.

Sunday Stats: Happiness Again

Americans’ wellbeing fell for the fourth straight month in September to 66.4, a 2010 low. Fewer Americans evaluated their lives positively, driving the Life Evaluation Index score to its lowest level since August 2009.

Read more at GALLUP.com. Needless to say, I’m intrigued by ‘happiness’. Why is it so important, so variable and so transient, yet arguably the most common goal of any person? Interesting, hunh?

Sunday Stats: What Was Nature Thinking?

Click here for twenty of the world’s ugliest (I use this term to mean ‘unconventional’ or ‘unattractive’ in a normative sense) animals. How did these creatures float to the top of the gene pool as being the ‘fittest’ for their environment?

Sunday Stats: We the People Consider Ourselves Better Informed

A democracy depends upon its people to be informed about the issues, willing to seek out answers and participate in the process of government, of elections. According to Rasmussen Reports, 67% say they are better informed than ten years ago.

Sunday Stats: Commuting–As Bad As it Feels

American workers with long commutes have lower overall wellbeing and are more likely to report a range of physical and emotional health problems, including back and neck pain, high cholesterol, worry, and fatigue. Obesity is also more common among those with lengthy trips to work.

Read more at GALLUP.com.

Sunday Stats: Mankind vs. Gaia, Who Wins?

Man the species lives on planet Earth. We are good caretakers, or not. We are a complicated species, so that is a complicated question. Most species last only a couple of million years. We’ve lasted not even a hundred thousand years, so our reign statistically has barely begun.

The question which worries us is, are we ruining our planet? Will we be the last living species to prosper on Earth or will Gaia shuck our ownership, squelch us as a species and survive despite our bad habits?

Sunday Stats: Armed Forces are the Happiest People

Active duty military personnel have higher wellbeing on average than U.S. workers as a whole, according to a new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index analysis. Veterans, however, fall far behind U.S. workers overall.

Read more at GALLUP.com.

Sunday Stats: Twitter is Buried in Queries

Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

This from Social Media:

Working off comScore figures from December 2009 for worldwide search queries, we have:

• • Google: 88 billion per month
  • Twitter: 19 billion per month
  • Yahoo: 9.4 billion per month
  • Bing: 4.1 billion per month

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Sunday Stats: MSNBC Poll on Arizona’s Immigration Law

Do you support Arizona’s tough new law on illegal immigration?

In July, Arizona will begin enforcing a new law that requires law enforcement officers to check someone’s immigration status if they have reason to suspect that he or she is in the country illegally. Do you think this is a good idea?

Hold on. MSNBC misrepresented what the law says. I know because I read SB 1070 (which is colloquially called the Arizona Immigration Law). Here’s what it should have posted:

Sunday Stats: Fourth of July is an Important Holiday

63% Consider Fourth of July One of Nation’s Most Important Holidays.

And only 21% of voters nationwide believe that the federal government now enjoys the consent of the governed.

Knowing Twitter Doesn’t Mean Using it

…or as my friend Jason Baer says, Twitter Sucks at Converting Awareness to Usage.

Here’s the statistics as revealed by an Edison Research study:

Known by 87%, just 7% of Americans use Twitter. Thus, fewer than one in 13 Americans who know about Twitter, actually use Twitter. Compare that ratio to Facebook, where 88% have heard of it, and 41% have a profile (a conversion rate approaching 50%).

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Sunday Stats: Hire Me!

Fewer than half of employers — 44% — plan to hire recent college grads in 2010, according to a CareerBuilder survey.

Sunday Stats: Most Americans Owe More on Their Home Than It’s Worth

57% Say Their Home is Worth More Than What’s Owed On Their Mortgage
No wonder we’re in a housing crisis. What happened to banks requiring the mortgage be only 25% of income? OMG…

Sunday Stats: Communism or Democracy?

A stunning 72% say most Hungarians are actually worse off now economically than they were under communism, according to a Pew Research Center study.

Sunday Stats: A YouTube of Where People Fly