[FRIAM] Hm. From Hunch.com

2011-03-10 Thread Victoria Hughes
Interesting study (over 450,000 people) categorizing email domain users. Full of tidbits like 77% of .gmail users have traveled to at least 5 other countries: and prefer salty over sweet snacks. Yahoo users are 48% more likely to consider themselves 'spiritual' than 'religious'.

Re: [FRIAM] Hm. From Hunch.com

2011-03-10 Thread Sarbajit Roy
1) I couldnt find the relative %ages of gmail users to AOL to Yahoomail etc. 2) I couldnt find figures for the age of the accounts surveyed. (For eg I could hypothesise that AOLmail is so bad that only their fat lazy woman subscribers havent moved on to other (better) providers.) Sarbajit On

Re: [FRIAM] Hm. From Hunch.com

2011-03-10 Thread Victoria Hughes
Scroll down on the blog post page itself. Info broken down by age categories. On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Sarbajit Roy wrote: 1) I couldnt find the relative %ages of gmail users to AOL to Yahoomail etc. 2) I couldnt find figures for the age of the accounts surveyed. (For eg I could

Re: [FRIAM] Hm. From Hunch.com

2011-03-10 Thread Sarbajit Roy
Hi 1) Actually, I was referring to the age of the email account, (and not the age of the account subscribers). 2) Wrt my sexist (apology due) remark on AOL users, in my defence I was zeroing in on the sexist comment/analysis in the article itself AOL users are most likely to be overweight

[FRIAM] Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com

2011-03-10 Thread Tom Johnson
This work would seem to have great potential in moving from Complexity Theory to Applied Complexity in multiple social environments and activities. http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word.html MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he