Ad hominem, unfounded inference, condescension/snark, and mind-reading, all in your last 11 words. Impressive!
Hard to respond to two assumptions stacked upon each other. First that my 40%+ figure was referring to IT (which should be self-evidently a category error), then that you were correcting that number down to 1.9 million.
Must not spend much time talking to people in other fields.