Ah, I think I can guess where "3700 hours per year consuming entertainment" comes from. At the nominal 8 hours per day of sleep, there are 5,840 waking hours in a year. At the nominal 40 hour week for 50 weeks (2 weeks vacation, or one week and 5 holidays; just a thumbnail estimate) you get 2000 working hours. That leaves 3,840 hours that are neither asleep nor working, and can be categorized as "entertainment". Sounds like arithmetic from a marketing person, saying that so many hours can be presumed available for entertainment. Peter
On 7/18/07, Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim Lux wrote: > The average person spends roughly 3700 hours per year consuming > enetertainment, of which more than 3500 are some form of audio or video > (i.e. not reading) I would love to hear where that data came from. Considering a work year is about 2080 hours, this means we spend more time per week being entertained, than working. Moreover, there are 8760 hours (give or take) in a year. 3700 hours represents 42% of that. Needless to say, I am ... ah ... skeptical ... about those numbers (the 3700). > > Going to the theater and seeing a movie is a very tiny fraction of this > (on average), but still accounts for about $10B per year in the US, and > perhaps $25B world wide (2004 numbers) and this does not include "adult" > entertainment. Maybe listening to the radio while driving your car counts. Maybe all the annoying little ad-blurbs on pages count. I dunno. 3700 hours? Unlikely at best. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
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