“If you’re talking tech with Americans, you may want to avoid using any jargon,” Salvador Rodriguez reports for The Los Angeles Times. “A recent study found that many Americans are lost when it comes to tech-related terms, with 11% saying that they thought HTML — a language that is used to create websites — was a sexually transmitted disease.”
“The study was conducted by Vouchercloud.net, a coupons website, as a way to determine how knowledgeable users are when it comes to tech terms,” Rodriguez reports. “Besides HTML, there were some other amusing findings.”
“27% identified ‘gigabyte’ as an insect commonly found in South America. 23% thought an ‘MP3’ was a ‘Star Wars’ robot,” Rodriguez reports. “15% said they believed ‘software’ is comfortable clothing. 12% said ‘USB’ is the acronym for a European country.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’re astounded that it’s only 11%.
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It’s funny, but why SHOULD most people know what it is ? Is the whole country programming web sites now? As previous posters suggested, why would anyone expect the general population to know technical terms & acronyms, specially in a field filled with an absurd amount of acronyms !
BTW, watch out for that HTML5 strain, it’s really nasty!
Wow! You
Wow! You people really need to stop cutting education spending to build more prisons for people caught with a gram of pot.
I believe 11% is closer to 1 in 9 than 1 in 10. Just saying.