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MWC: alternative stats

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 4:43 PM

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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]

About The Author

Ben Robinson

Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.

  • xRHINOx

    wow, what a pointless post. who cares?

  • Ben Robinson

    I think you’ll find the statistics lovers amongst us care a great deal… particularly about the % of black shoes being worn…! :razz:

  • xRHINOx

    you guys must not have a life then! lol

  • Ben Robinson

    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’….

  • xRHINOx

    hmm. ok. whatever floats your boat. lol. so.. do you hae any good insider info re the lg vu coming to at&t?

  • Ben

    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. :idea:

  • xRHINOx

    yeah, what do you have for it?

  • Ben

    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.

  • xRHINOx

    dude, thats hilarious. props to you man! :)

  • xRHINOx

    ever thought about who wants to be a millionaire or jeopardy?

  • James @ Nokia Creative

    Love it!

    92% were shorter than 6ft. Well, It was held in Spain… Only kidding, I love the Spanish!

  • Ben

    I have thought about it. A lot. Then I ran some stats. The stats told me bad things :sad:

    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 :smile:

    I’m gonna order up some violent quiche – chic-a-chia-ahhh :grin:

  • Ben

    The Spanish are lovely. Quite short though. You could miss one in queue for a bus :grin:

  • Ben

    This is quite the most random set of comments ever on IntoMobile :mrgreen:

  • xRHINOx

    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…

  • Ben

    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

  • Ben

    Right I gotta get some ZZZZs

    Goodnight – and remember – stats are your friends – just don’t feed them after midnight :wink:

  • Topy

    “Blue is the most popular tie color”
    How many had Disney tie?