iRobots Take Over, Statistics Say

Great stuff here, unless you worship Steve Jobs. According to Jobs:

the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year.

According to the article:

Last year, a survey for the Associated Press found that a much smaller number — 27 percent — had not read a book lately, which means nearly three-in-four have read a book. Steve Jobs may be many things – maestro, visionary, demi-god – but he apparently isn’t a careful reader of certain market reports.

The more compelling statistic was rarely mentioned in news accounts of the A.P. story: the survey found that another 27 percent of Americans had read 15 or more books a year. That report documents a national celebration.

And as one of the comments aptly points out: "Forty percent of Americans do not vote. Does that mean that we have no elections in the United States?"

Ah, statistics, is there nothing they can't prove?