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'People lie, internet stats tell the truth'

techradar.com — "Someone's not telling the truth," laughs internet stats guru Bill Tancer as he tells Techradar of his latest stunt at conferences – asking for a show of hands on who accesses adult sites.

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  • DivisibleByZero, on 03/05/2009, -5/+80I call shenanigans on these numbers.

    There's no way only 11% of Americans look at internet porn.
  • StickWST, on 03/05/2009, -2/+57Hell, my porn habit might as well account for that entire 11%.
  • DivisibleByZero, on 03/05/2009, -1/+2611% of the day? That's less than 3 hours!
  • Zarokima, on 03/05/2009, -1/+21Maybe it's 11% daily.
  • Caps, on 03/05/2009, -0/+16Very brave of you to say that anonymously on the internet. Now go to your workplace see if you have the balls to tell all your colleagues.

    That's the whole point of the article.
  • bat-21, on 03/05/2009, -0/+1511% of people don't know how to cover their tracks.
  • DrewPeacock, on 03/05/2009, -6/+21I went through and dugg up every comment regardless of content. Am I doing it right?
  • inactive, on 03/05/2009, -8/+16Those stats - 11% and 7.7% - both seem very low.
  • TheKitchenSinkX, on 03/05/2009, -1/+9My sentiments exactly.

    If we're going total population, it'll have to be at least 40%. Just the males, probably more like 80%.
  • Gareth321, on 03/05/2009, -4/+11Ditto. I'm forming the UNbury brigade. Who the *****'s with me??
  • JRedski, on 03/05/2009, -0/+6I think it would be hilarious to be the only person in a lecture to raise your hand.
    When everyone looks at you, you just yell out "Don't judge me!!!"
  • JFitzpatrick, on 03/05/2009, -0/+6Maybe noobs use crappy virus laden websites to get their ***** free porn... but don't try to come off like an elitist for using Bittorrent. The noobs with the ***** websites will never get served a copyright infringement notice for downloading Dirt Pipe Milkshakes 4.
  • inactive, on 03/05/2009, -9/+14Nobody is lying. That one guy raising his hand, he's the 11% of the internet accessing porn.
  • JFitzpatrick, on 03/05/2009, -0/+4You could ask 10,000 people in a row if they have heard of TOR and the chances you'd find one that does would be pretty slim. I don't know a single person in RL that has ever even mentioned encryption let alone TOR.
  • inactive, on 03/05/2009, -1/+5yea i agree, very low
  • inactive, on 03/05/2009, -0/+3...by lying people. The base stats are still honest, though.
  • JFitzpatrick, on 03/05/2009, -0/+3I agree.

    I'm dying to see where they got that number. Frequent users? Daily users? Are we really expected to believe that 99.99 percent of humans when under the impression that they are anonymous and safe in their own homes won't be looking up adult material on their computers?
  • fjsferreira, on 03/05/2009, -5/+8I wouldn't raise only my hand, that's for sure
  • xGeneric, on 03/05/2009, -0/+3Indeed. I just don't understand some people :(
  • tattertech, on 03/06/2009, -0/+2The FTC for one...
  • Groovydoo, on 03/05/2009, -4/+6With holding an answer is not lying!
  • TheNyquilKid, on 03/05/2009, -1/+3Liar!
  • whytey, on 03/05/2009, -1/+3Internet lies, people tell the truth
  • cfuse, on 03/05/2009, -2/+4Only noobs use html for porn. Bittorrent, that is all.
  • inactive, on 03/05/2009, -0/+2I wish I had a nickel for every time I read a comment like yours. I'd probably have $5.
  • crazyhorse13, on 03/05/2009, -0/+2Uh, who cares about cookies?
  • twystoffate, on 03/05/2009, -0/+1My workplace is at home, so not quite the same thing. Although I do see your point when I'm briefing a colonel.
  • SangekiRein, on 03/05/2009, -1/+2These comments suck, along with this article... man I wasted enough time here.
  • crazyhorse13, on 03/05/2009, -0/+180% of men. So more like 40%.
  • samssf, on 03/05/2009, -0/+1Yeah, so say all the compulsive liars...
  • inactive, on 03/05/2009, -8/+9Go sound guy!
  • thinkb4utype, on 03/07/2009, -0/+1Remember kids, always clean your history and delete those pesky temporary files or Mr. Supervisor will be real mad.
  • pumanegra2012, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1That will be amusing to watch
  • thinkb4utype, on 03/07/2009, -0/+1Why aren't all the articles on Digg porn? Does Kevin delete them?
    Seems like that would be the only kind of article here otherwise.
  • noumuon, on 05/09/2009, -0/+1umm... 99.99 percent + 11 percent = 110.99 percent.
  • Exhibitionist, on 03/06/2009, -0/+1Dirt Pipe Milkshakes 4 wasn't even in the same league as Dirt Pipe Milkshakes 3, or Dirt Pipe Milkshakes 2 for that matter.
  • FreeTalkLIve, on 03/05/2009, -1/+1This relates to how bad laws get passed.

    Ask how many people use marijuana in a live group of people and you will get similar results.

    It would seem that everyone in these groups are against porn and marijuana or whatever else.

    People are hypocrites in public.

    A lady in public. but a whore in bed.

  • drexl, on 03/05/2009, -1/+1Stats are *****. 73.2% of all stats are made up on the spot.
  • CressCrowbits, on 03/05/2009, -1/+1I really hope I don't decide to try a career in politics one day. Man, I'm sure there is SO MUCH dirt that could be dug up on me.
  • kudzul33t, on 03/05/2009, -1/+1but I can always find the stats to validate my point on the internet.......
  • azies, on 03/05/2009, -1/+1I believes this fact
  • Meocross, on 03/05/2009, -2/+1Anime > Porn
    Pahlease porn is a joke that people try to substitute as a virtual drug
  • TheMachine1, on 03/05/2009, -14/+13"Out of thousands of people I've only ever got one person raise his hand "

    He should have said raise your hand if you have used the Internet(all hands up). Then if you have viewed an Internet porn site lower your hands.

    Logic anyone visiting Internet porn sites arm maybe tired from excessive masturbation.
  • skztr, on 03/05/2009, -1/+0I don't go to "adult entertainment sites". I go to sites which don't freak out over porn being posted. Also, sometimes I go to porn sites.

    "adult entertainment" sounds like some kind of over-polished pay site with a black background and stars over all the nipples on the "preview images". Also, one of those sites that has preview images.

    Say "how many look at porn on the internet?" and I bet you'd get more hands
  • inactive, on 03/05/2009, -10/+9Sure i visit porn sites, i mean masturbation is one of my favorite hobby.
  • Dustin00, on 03/05/2009, -2/+1Remember: if you don't enjoy masturbation, you have nobody to blame except yourself.
  • Ensorceled, on 03/05/2009, -2/+0This article lost me when he defined "cognitive dissonance" as saying one thing and doing another. I'm not going to trust internet statistics and analysis from a researcher who doesn't know the difference between cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy ...
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