Charlie Sorrel
Gear

Suspicious Survey Claims Brits Can't Remember Numbers

ZYB, the company in question, say that: Britons are suffering from phone number amnesia with almost three quarters of the population (69 per cent) unable to remember even five numbers stored on their mobile phone. They're not beyond some good old-fashioned scare tactics either: Mobile phones are involved in 40 per cent of robberies within the UK with a handset being stolen every 12 seconds (the equivalent of more than 2.5 million per year) Ouch!

CatzWe already heard today about the writing skills of the Irish being destroyed by cellphones. Now it's claimed that the English can't keep more than five numbers in their heads.

This may well be true, but when the survey is carried out by a company who are in the mobile backup business alarm bells go off in my head. ZYB, the company in question, say that:

Britons are suffering from phone number amnesia with almost three quarters of the population (69 per cent) unable to remember even five numbers stored on their mobile phone.

They're not beyond some good old-fashioned scare tactics either:

Mobile phones are involved in 40 per cent of robberies within the UK with a handset being stolen every 12 seconds (the equivalent of more than 2.5 million per year)

Ouch! Don't hold back, Zyb.

Press release [Zyb via Tech.co.uk]