Children aged two or younger are being allowed to use the internet, while many youngsters are spending much longer online than their parents realise, a new poll suggests.Oh, really? And how did they come by this alarming statistic? Which high-powered thinktank researched this?
The Netmums survey …Ah. Say no more…
…questioned around 1,100 parents and about 825 children aged seven to 16 for their views on the internet.So they drew from their own tiny, unrepresentative sample and extrapolated it to include the wider population. And newspapers unhesitatingly print it. Longrider has another classic example.
Well, it fills up a lot of that white space in between the adverts, I suppose…
The findings show that three quarters (72.8 per cent) of parents believe that their child spends under an hour a day online. But an analysis of the children's poll suggested that on average, youngsters are spending two hours each day on the internet, Netmums claimed.And children never lie on these surveys...
So reading this another way, 72.8% of the politically motivated, social engineering, dozy mares of Mumsnet are so busy trying to save the world by changing it into their image, that they don't realise Tabitha and Peregrine are spending their childhood poring over the numerous pages of the interweb. Then they have the temerity to blame the rest of the population for their own failings. Anyway, all surveys prove is that someone has given an answer to a question - not necessarily a truthful answer, just an answer.
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But the answer usually has something to tell us about the people who ask the question...
ReplyDelete"Anyway, all surveys prove is that someone has given an answer to a question - not necessarily a truthful answer, just an answer."
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"But the answer usually has something to tell us about the people who ask the question..."
Another truth. But I doubt if they ever consider that...