Man of Honour
Ok, so I was watching Season 6 Episode 12 of QI and there's a bit at the end that makes me cringe.
Stephen asks "What makes up 70% of the Internet?"
This is a flawed question to start as you haven't specified the metric by which you are measuring the traffic. Are we talking about specific requests or total bandwidth?
He then proceeds to say that less than 1% of all email traffic is porn. Which could very well be true, but SMTP traffic is not the biggest bandwidth user by far and so doesn't really relate to the question.
He concludes by saying "A recent study has established that the world wide web is less than one percent is pornography and on the other hand 89% of all emails are spam."
Now this further annoys me as email traffic is nothing to do with the WWW at all. He is using WWW and Internet interchangeably which is incorrect. By doing so, he neglects all WWW traffic, a lot of which will be porn as will P2P traffic.
Now if I am to come out with witty anecdotes about how someone's commonly held fallacy is indeed false, I need correct information and QI is one of my most useful sources. Now I don't know who to believe. I'm so annoyed I might have to write a letter
Stephen asks "What makes up 70% of the Internet?"
This is a flawed question to start as you haven't specified the metric by which you are measuring the traffic. Are we talking about specific requests or total bandwidth?
He then proceeds to say that less than 1% of all email traffic is porn. Which could very well be true, but SMTP traffic is not the biggest bandwidth user by far and so doesn't really relate to the question.
He concludes by saying "A recent study has established that the world wide web is less than one percent is pornography and on the other hand 89% of all emails are spam."
Now this further annoys me as email traffic is nothing to do with the WWW at all. He is using WWW and Internet interchangeably which is incorrect. By doing so, he neglects all WWW traffic, a lot of which will be porn as will P2P traffic.
Now if I am to come out with witty anecdotes about how someone's commonly held fallacy is indeed false, I need correct information and QI is one of my most useful sources. Now I don't know who to believe. I'm so annoyed I might have to write a letter