At 10:38 AM 7/18/2007, Joe Landman 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.
Why, it came from the web, and the web doesn't lie..
(I'll get you the actual reference, shortly)
Considering a work year is about 2080 hours, this means we spend
more time per week being entertained, than working.
But you only work 5 days a week, and you're entertained 7.
It did seem high, though.. But then, say you listen to the radio or
CDs in the car during a 2 hour commute (both ways), watch TV for 3
hours when you get home, watch TV for 4 hours on Sat and Sun, and
you're getting up into the thousands of hours category.
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.
The reference was to media, so clearly, listening to the radio counts.
They're probably also counting things like background music in
stores, gyms, etc.
3700 hours? Unlikely at best.
CDC says 25% of children watch >4hrs/day of TV.. that's 1460 hours right there.
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