On Thursday, January 13, 2011, phoebe ayers wrote:
"Wikipedia, past and present" http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Wikipedia.aspx
Given how much Google juice WP has, I find it unintuitive that only "53% of adult internet users" "use Wikipedia to look for information". I thought this low number is perhaps people thinking this means they type the query into Wikipedia itself. Pew is always thorough, so looking for the questions I see [1] and infer the question was:
Thinking about your internet use overall... Please tell me if you ever use the internet to do any of the following things. Do you ever use the internet to [Look for information on Wikipedia] ? / Did you happen to do this yesterday, or not?
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[1]: http://pewinternet.org/Shared-Content/Data-Sets/2010/May-2010--Cell-Phones.a...