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From CNN: New study shatters Internet ‘geek’ image.

The findings of the first World Internet Project report present an image of the average Netizen that contrasts with the stereotype of the loner “geek” who spends hours of his free time on the Internet and rarely engages with the real world.

Instead, the typical Internet user is an avid reader of books and spends more time engaged in social activities than the non-user, it says. And, television viewing is down among some Internet users by as much as five hours per week compared with Net abstainers, the study added.

Huh? Never met the person that they’re talking about. My guess is that their selected population is not representative of the real world. Then again, the study also claims that Swedish users are “are the biggest skeptics about the veracity of Web news”.