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Would be nice if they gave actual percentages in place of the "x% more likely". Not particularly useful if I don't know the baseline.

It would be nice if it controlled for various factors like income, and gave it in a more parsimonious form. For example, it claims that while 54% of PC people have completed a college degree, 67% of Mac people have. But perhaps the linkage is through income.

Additionally, as someone else mentioned, the "% more likely" isn't really a great measure. Also, what about the significance levels, not to mention the level of bias in the sampling?

I know this is just sort of for fun, but if we're expected to make any use of this data, then it needs to be more rigorous (especially the bias).

I'm sorry the "neither" didn't go into more specifics (like both PCs and Macs | use Linux or *BSD | use something crazy like Haiku or KolibriOS | don't really use computers). I'd also like to see a comparison of Linux and Mac users.

It is always odd to me that Mac users tend to always call non-Mac computers "PCs", as if all PCs were basically the same, and as if Macs weren't personal computers.

The 'more likely' statistics provided are a somewhat deceptive attempt to paint a particular picture - until the raw numbers are provided, it is basically meaningless.

Mac vs PC infographic