MWC: alternative stats
By Ben Robinson on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 4:43 PM PST In 3GSM, Mobile World Congress 2008, Random, Research, The Digital Life
I think this is the last 3GSM08 post (yes, still refusing to called it MWC) I am going to make, but hey hey, it’s a light-hearted one, so why not one more….
OnePointSurveys and mBlox have released their final “Alternative Congress Stats wrap-up” – for those of you not familiar, mBlox commissioned OnePointSurveys to conduct SMS surveys of essentially non-important, light-hearted topics each day. Below you’ll find the results of the demographics survey (comments welcome), but there are also some quite amusing ones in the full results here.
- 90% of Mobile World Congress shoes are black.
- 85% people are wearing suits
- Blue is the most popular tie colour
- Attendee hair colour: 0.5% ginger, 40% black, 7% grey, 37% brunette/brown 10% Blonde, 6% N/A
- 15% are women (this rises to 20% in Hall 7)
- 75% of people have more than one mobile but alarmingly 2% left theirs at home!
- 45% of people look tired (on the Wednesday)
- 60% of people had water for lunch, 5% alcohol, 30% fruit juice, 40% coffee
- 92% of people were shorter than 6ft
[Via: Mobile Marketing Magazine]
wow, what a pointless post. who cares?
I think you’ll find the statistics lovers amongst us care a great deal… particularly about the % of black shoes being worn…!
you guys must not have a life then! lol
you’d be surprised when that sort of knowledge can be really important. Imagine if someone asked you what the distribution of hair colour was at a given event – you could just give a great example, and go wild on that question – like, you know, real pure stats and stuff, with numbers an everythin’….
hmm. ok. whatever floats your boat. lol. so.. do you hae any good insider info re the lg vu coming to at&t?
Will’s your man for the US stuff – partly because he’s American, but also because he lives in the US. I’ve got some stats on the US if you’re interested.
yeah, what do you have for it?
Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class.
The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
dude, thats hilarious. props to you man!
ever thought about who wants to be a millionaire or jeopardy?
Love it!
92% were shorter than 6ft. Well, It was held in Spain… Only kidding, I love the Spanish!
I have thought about it. A lot. Then I ran some stats. The stats told me bad things
Anyhow, you want to see something really random, check this out – British humour at it’s quite random best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz2szNKnsXo
I’m gonna order up some violent quiche – chic-a-chia-ahhh
The Spanish are lovely. Quite short though. You could miss one in queue for a bus
This is quite the most random set of comments ever on IntoMobile
yeah i love it.
you’re probably my favorite editor as of now..
more stats, come on!
im rather entertained by sitting here at work reading this…
Americans buy 2.7 billion packages of breakfast cereal each year. If laid end to end, the empty cereal boxes from one year’s consumption would stretch to the moon and back.
Wal-Mart offers workers $1,000 in catastrophic health coverage, but they must pay at least $500 a year for it.
The only species of freshwater shark are found in Lake Nicaragua in Central America
By the way you should check out these interactive stats – amazing….:
http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/2007/12/17/Chris-Jordan-Numbers-Photo-Essay
Right I gotta get some ZZZZs
Goodnight – and remember – stats are your friends – just don’t feed them after midnight
“Blue is the most popular tie color”
How many had Disney tie?