The Statistics Are Out of This World
Let's imagine that an alien is visiting earth incognito to study human behavior before sending ambassadors to make the first formal contact with us. One of the first things he notices is that the Internet is an important part of human existence, being used for a wide variety of purposes, including obtaining news and information. But the alien also finds that 35 percent of all downloads are of something called pornography.1
The alien decides to look at some data from the most popular porn website to better understand humans' interactions with pornography. This website, he discovers, receives 64 million visitors each day, the equivalent of 729 visitors every second. During the...
has an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Texas at Dallas, and an M.A. in bioethics from Trinity International University. She resides in Dallas and currently works as a freelance science writer and educator.
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