LOL!
Sure you can.
Posted on 03/28/2009 6:12:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Adult Americans spend an average of more than eight hours a day in front of screens -- televisions, computer monitors, cellphones or other devices, according to a new study.
The study also found that live television in the home continues to attract the greatest amount of viewing time with the average American spending slightly more than five hours a day in front of the tube.
The figure drops to 210 minutes a day of average TV viewing time among 18-24 year olds but rises to 420 minutes a day among those aged 65 and older.
The "Video Consumer Mapping" study was conducted by Ball State University's Center for Media Design (CMD) and Sequent Partners for the Nielsen-funded Council for Research Excellence (CRE).
For the year-long study, observers recorded the exposure of 350 subjects to four categories of screens: traditional television, computers, mobile devices and other screens such as store displays, movie screens and even GPS navigation units.
The study found the average amount of screen time for all age groups was "strikingly similar" at more than eight-and-a-half hours although the type of devices and duration used by the respective groups throughout the day varied.
It found that people aged 45 to 54 averaged the most daily screen time at just over nine-and-a-half hours.
The study did not include anyone under the age of 18.
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perhaps much more than we might like to admit or realize. :-o
Those poor other people. ;-)
I hear ya. lol
It’s OK, in her spare time, BG refinishes ‘pool’d’ furniture and still manages to rescue wayward souls and post some mmm.. MMmmm good threads. :-)
I spend 10 hours a day on screens. It’s my IT job. With hope and change coming down the road, no doubt it will be cut down to 2 hours. If I’m lucky.
LOL! And she probably does all that while posting here at the same time.
In past loves, uhh jobs, the screen was part of the job, ya can’t get away from it.. good luck cutting it back that much.
Unless your were an illiterate ditch digger, you spent at least 8 hours a day in front of "paper" plus "radio" back in 1939.
Only 8 hours a day on FR? How come? Take away their password until a full apology.
Can I get credit watching TV and FREEPING? Does that give me bonus hours added to this worthless study?????
I blame FR.
8 hours a day in front of paper?
I doubt it. Back then, most people were in agriculture. It was 10 hours a day in a field or mending or tending something.
at work i used to push paper 8 hours a day. now i read a screen and push buttons.
I can give up FR anytime! ANYtime!
Yeah. That's it!
tax credits sound OK? this could be a bonanza, yaknow.
just have to figure a way to spin it that the more you’re staring at a screen, the less energy you’re using.. and you’re thus ‘entitled’ to carbon credits. :-)
I’ll never watch real life again.
8 hours, is that all?
LOL!
LOL!
Sure you can.
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