Average American Has Just 4 Hours, 26 Minutes of Free Time per Week

Re:Average American Has Just 4 Hours, 26 Minutes of Free Tim... by nabla9 on Saturday April 06, 2019 @05:04PM (#19593002)

It's hard to believe this for the following reasons.

> A new survey finds that the average American adult logs just four hours and 26 minutes of time to themselves in a given week.

So this includes retired people?

> According to a Nielsen report, United States adults are watching five hours and four minutes of television per day on average (35.5 h/week) (2016 statistics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_consumption

> Time Flies: U.S. Adults Now Spend Nearly Half a Day Interacting with Media

https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2018/time-flies-...

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Re:Average American Has Just 4 Hours, 26 Minutes of Free Tim... by jfoutz on Saturday April 06, 2019 @05:27PM (#19593099)

I don't doubt people have the tv on for 5 hours a day. I do doubt that people are intently watching every minute. Making dinner, washing dishes, straitening up, and folding laundry are all sort of obvious things people do while the tv is on.

Heck, that second reference included 'game console' which, i think, is the only one listed that really requires full engagement. that's 14 minutes a day.

the 2.5 hours on a web/app on a smartphone is an interesting one. Does listening to spotify at work count? that would definitely pump those numbers a lot.

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