Thanks to Slashdot for the link to this article by the BBC News. It’s based on a survey done by AMD asking the definitions of words such as megahertz, MP3, and Bluetooth.
More than 1,500 people in the US, UK, China and Japan took part in the survey, which looked at how far consumers understood jargon used to described new gadgets.
Just 3% of those surveyed got a perfect score on a quiz, which included terms such as MP3 – a digital audio file – and Bluetooth – a short-range technology which uses radio waves instead of wires.
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I got 6 out of 7 correct in this survey. Post what you got here! Remember: No Googling