Everything is so serious these days that it is nice to find some levity. This is good – a company recently tracked aspects of 75,000 tech support calls. They have some gender-related data (emphasis mine):
Male callers: 64% didn’t bother to read the instruction manual before calling for help.
Female callers: 24% didn’t bother to read the instruction manual before calling for help.
Male callers: 12% just needed to plug in their gear to “resolve their issue”.
Female callers: 7% ditto!
Female callers stayed on the phone with tech support 32% longer than male callers.
66% of tech support operators said they preferred dealing with female clients, anyway.
So according to the first point, 36% of guys did read the instructions? I am embarrassed that so many did. Time to check their man cards.