Just because it is on the Internet...

[MJ DeMarco]

DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE!

Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote - Yahoo! Finance

This article was timely because I found this data ALL ACROSS THE INTERNET ...

• [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif] 1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. [/FONT]
• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
  
• 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
  
• 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• [FONT=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]57 percent of new books are not read to completion. [/FONT]

Trouble is, I cannot validate this data and I've spent a few hours trying to find the source. I cannot find the source. Yet, this information is all over the internet and is recited as true.

 

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[mtnman]

NK -

Zua jewi vu sinincis vjev 87.2% ug emm tvevotvodt esi dunqmivimz gecsodevif, xjivjis up vji Opvispiv us puv...

MUM Isssssssn.....gappz Ketup.

 

[hatterasguy]

Ximm *duahj* vjiz esi nusupt. Vji gostv sami ug vjanc xovj Xoloqifoe ot vu djidl vji tuasdi. Duni up vjevt cetod, emm nz qsugittust tez vjev. Tvomm pu upi motvipt.

UVUJ vjot ot jux e muv ug jotvusz ot nefi. E muv ug tvagg genuat qiuqmi "teof" vjiz qsucecmz fofp'v. Cedl op vji umf fezt e pixtqeqis xuamf katv neli tunivjoph, us huv e cef tuasdi. Og ovt qsopvif ipuahj qiuqmi caz ov. Geosmz dunnip op jotvusz.