Thursday, October 22, 2009

I liked Tapscott's argument that we are smarter than everyone says we are, but I don't like how he goes about saying it. For example in Chapter 1, in a global sample of thousands of Net Geners, 7 out of 10 people chose that they would rather be smart than good-looking. My first problem with this is 7 out of 10 choosing to be smart doesn't seem believable. Another problem I have is that he took a sample of "thousands" in a global survey. He should have sampled millions because thousands is not enough to represent the hundreds of millions of Net Geners around the world. Another problem I found was on his population pyramids, he had age 0 at the bottom of the chart and age 100 at the top, but he never put any specific age increments. He uses an inconsistent number of lines in each pyramid. For example, there are 18 lines in the U.S. Pyramid (Figure 1.7), and 21 in the U.K. Pyramid (Figure 1.8). In both graphs, there is not an even number of years that the lines signify. In the the "Population Under 30 by Country" (Figure 1.17), he has India twice, one as 66 million, and the other as 4 million.

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