99.8% Of College Students Have Cell Phones: Ball State Study

Daily Nebraskan :

Over the last few years, the image of students talking, texting or e-mailing on their phones in between classes has become increasingly common on most college campuses.

And this trend doesn't show any signs of slowing down.

A new study performed at Ball State University found that 99.8 percent of college students now have some kind of cell phone, and that smart phones are accounting for more of their electronic communication and computing needs than ever before.

Read the whole story: Daily Nebraskan

Comments

[DramaKitteh]

04:50 AM on 06/29/2010

I once worked with a girl who attended Ball State. She always stated the painfully obvious, months after everyone else came to the conclusion.

Now I understand where she developed the habit.

[skullman]

12:31 AM on 06/29/2010

When I was in college you couldn't have found 99.8% of the students having a pen or pencil.

[peterschmid]

02:18 AM on 06/29/2010

chiseling into rocks must have made it hard to keep up with lectures.

[tenderlung]

09:50 PM on 06/28/2010

what a shocking conclusion

[Senseid]

09:17 PM on 06/28/2010

sad waste of money

[REDSTATEREFUGEE]

08:10 PM on 06/28/2010

What a colossal waste of time and energy. Anyone alive on any college or university campus could have saved the researcher the expense of determining that virtually 100% of the student body is wired. As I have reported several times in the college section of the Huffpost, classroom cell phone usage is epidemic. Some students, I truly believe, are cellular-addicted and cannot tolerate even one hour away from their precious text messages. This summer, in a freshman composition class, one of my students has worked her way down from an A to a B simply because she has not listened to instructions about assignments and submits defective work. She has, however, maintained her cellular umbilical cord with her contacts...

[peterschmid]

02:43 AM on 06/29/2010

dear god, i hope you aren't a real professor. you are mistaking the laziness of one particular student for the productivity of many others.

even if cell phones are involved, any dedicated student can balance a work and social life with school. when you place the blame on cell phones (or any other distraction), you give reason to believe that your own subject material isn't the reason that students are not learning what they should be learning. adapt your topics to what interests modern individuals, and you will find that students are more receptive.

[Benjamin Fitzgerald]

06:22 PM on 06/28/2010

This is an amazing story! 0.2% of college students don't have a cell phone? Who the heck are these people and where have they been hiding?

[thereisonlyoneparty]

06:40 PM on 06/28/2010

Some people do not have mobile phones due to cost of whatever.

The penetration is going to be high though because people in university usually will forego a home phone and rely completely on the mobile phone. People who live at home might use a home phone as contact number.

[Rep/Dem both suck]

09:08 PM on 06/28/2010

this has to be the .2%

[trinity]

11:48 PM on 06/28/2010

I was thinking the same thing...

[CptKendrick]

04:43 PM on 06/28/2010

Best name for a college...ever.

[thereisonlyoneparty]

06:38 PM on 06/28/2010

A notable alumnus of Ball State is David Letterman.

[larmarch5]

03:58 PM on 06/28/2010

That's a big reason polls are often wrong.