Why are the Internet access statistics skewed ?
It came to my attention that the number of computers in a country sometime differs greatly from the number of Internet users in that same country, so I was wondering whether the various Internet access statistics should be adjusted to consider this factor. Let me explain better with two very clear examples: In the USA there are 264 million computers but 220 million Internet users, with a ratio of 86 users for every 100 computers. In Brazil there are 33 million computers but 50 million Internet users, with a ratio of 150 users for every 100 computers. You can understand that, unless the monitoring/counting tool takes this into account by resetting a flag each time that a different user is on the same computer, those connecting from the USA will actually be counted almost twice as many times as they should than those connecting from Brazil. That is, a user from the USA will likely have a computer at home, at school (if studying) and at work and therefore be counted against “access from u
