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A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby mjh » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:52 am


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From the economist.

I'm probably averaging less than an hour a day. The 6pm news a few times a week, a few select programs (but never religiously), big rugby games.
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby vibragreen » Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:16 am

What's scary is when you put these numbers into years of your life. 8 hours a day, for 80 years is like 30 years isn't? To think you have watched 30 years worth of TV in your life when you could have been enjoying this wonderful world.

I don't watch TV anymore save for a few national geographic specials. However, I do spend too much time on the computer dicking around doing nothing. This is not much better than TV except I do learn a lot and do productive things from time to time.
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby keyboardworkout » Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:50 am

And 6 of those 8 hours is His Majesty Obama on TV reading from a teleprompter how he is going to fix everything.

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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby vibragreen » Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:52 am

^ Well that one came out of left field...
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby atypical1 » Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:54 am

keyboardworkout wrote:And 6 of those 8 hours is His Majesty Obama on TV reading from a teleprompter how he is going to fix everything.

:x


True, it was much, much more entertaining watching Bush make a fool of himself :mrgreen:

We watch movies on Netflix but never network television. In fact our TV is hooked up to one of our PC's specifically so we can stream movies.

I don't know anyone who watches that much TV though and don't really see how that is possible if you are employed.

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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby mjh » Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:59 am

keyboardworkout wrote:And 6 of those 8 hours is His Majesty Obama on TV reading from a teleprompter how he is going to fix everything.

:x


Please don't troll threads with off-topic, irrelevant politics. Thanks.
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby keyboardworkout » Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:01 am

It's just a point on the kind of programming we Americans are subject to.
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby mjh » Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:09 am

I don't care what your point is. It's irrelevant to the topic at hand.
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby lovestolift » Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:46 am

atypical1 wrote:I don't know anyone who watches that much TV though and don't really see how that is possible if you are employed.

I would assume that they got this info from Nielsen ratings. They take the percentage of people with boxes watching "x" show and extrapolate for the total population. I assume that people with those boxes would watch more television, and therefor skew the numbers. Either way there is no denying that America loves it's telly.
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby atypical1 » Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:42 am

OK, so I just went through their entire document (the OECD) and they never once presented how they obtained their data. I spent some time over on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11.htm_) and they are showing a nightly viewing average of 2.72 hours a night for men and 2.39 hours a night for women (on week nights). This seems much more plausable to me.

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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby holvoetn » Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:12 am

I may be the exception here ... I think during the week I average quite close to ZERO hours. Not even the news. I catch that on the radio while commuting from/to work.
In the weekend I may get to maybe 2 hours when watching a film.

Unless we start to count computer time as well, then I get easily 10 hours a day during the week :shock:
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby mjh » Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:29 am

atypical1 wrote:OK, so I just went through their entire document (the OECD) and they never once presented how they obtained their data. I spent some time over on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t11.htm_) and they are showing a nightly viewing average of 2.72 hours a night for men and 2.39 hours a night for women (on week nights). This seems much more plausable to me.

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good investigating James. I'll take that as a lesson not to take pretty graphs at face value. I did wonder about the methodology of that study.
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby holvoetn » Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:34 am

Isn't the high number also a result from people just letting the TV on all day e.g. in the kitchen ?
I do not know for sure how it is for real but in American movies you see this almost all the time.
Don't want to generalize, so apologies in advance if this is the case with this remark/question ...
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby Mehdi » Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:33 am

Don't watch tv, don't have cable, don't read newspapers. I get the latest by talking to people, and I don't seem to be missing on a lot. It's amazing the amount of negativity that you avoid by choosing to shut yourself down from all the crap being shown.
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Re: A startling graph for the Americans in the house

Postby jfh26 » Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:08 pm

I hardly ever watch TV anymore, but I spend a ton of time on the internet and watching Law and Order on Netflix :D
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