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Means of Communication
Write 150 words describing the information in the graph below.
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The two pie charts illustrate preferred modes of communication for six forms of media in a survey undertaken in two HD 2 classes, one male and the other female, at ADWC in February 2005. A brief description follows.
First, the telephone emerges as the most popular mode for males with a proportion of 27%. It ranks almost as high, at 22% with females, but is tied in their case with text messaging. Text messaging also ranks high with men, who allot it 1% more. E-mail and instant messenger are close thirds and fourths in popularity, scoring 17% and 16% respectively for men, 21% and 18% for their counterparts. Last, male students give the fax only 10%, and letters even less, 7%; females reverse the same percentages.
To conclude, preferences for the six modes of communication are almost identical for the sexes. Both favour communicating by telephone and text message the most, e-mail and instant messenger the second most, and letter and fax the least. The only minor difference is that women prefer communicating by letter and men by fax.
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