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Re: What Americans Actually Do All Day Long

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Post by ChrisBaldwin »

Super_luigi wrote: post #8
ChrisBaldwin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Statistics are just statistics. Nothing is sad about 6 minutes when the "average" American isn't in school.

the data is for "average American with a full-time job". This assumes that they have already completed their education. 6 min/day is about 36.5 hours of education, which seems quite a bit for a professional

6 minutes a day is impressive for a professional assuming it is not related to work.

Also, for some professionals, working at their job provides education for performing their job better. They should have split working and commuting from each other, or at least provided a split of the data.

Re: What Americans Actually Do All Day Long

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Post by raygunomical »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #2

Clearly they take a weekly total and divide by 7. 7:48 of 'religious' time is just about 55minutes a week so I'm guessing an hour of church a week. Would be interesting to do the multi-variable analysis across different factors like education, location, etc.

But the article says:

> Here's how the average American with a full-time job spends a typical workday

It mentions "workday" specifically, so it probably doesn't include weekends.

Re: What Americans Actually Do All Day Long

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Post by s8qnze982y »

ChrisBaldwin wrote: post #5
mintyice wrote: post #4

6 minutes of Education is pretty sad.

Statistics are just statistics. Nothing is sad about 6 minutes when the "average" American isn't in school.

They're not "just statistics", as they point to some interesting facts.

Americans for example travel less and work more compared to other countries.

"6 minutes of education" is definitively negative (although I would personally use "narrow (minded)" in place of "sad") when compared with "90+ minutes of TV".

Re: What Americans Actually Do All Day Long

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Post by dpres »

Just counted...

I wrote 169,020 lines of code in 9,691.25 hrs over 4 yrs from 2007-11 for a part-time job while going to school.

That's 17.44 lines per hour or 0.29 lines per minute, not including code written for school or leisure!

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Post by [deleted] »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #2

Clearly they take a weekly total and divide by 7. 7:48 of 'religious' time is just about 55minutes a week so I'm guessing an hour of church a week. Would be interesting to do the multi-variable analysis across different factors like education, location, etc.

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Re: What Americans Actually Do All Day Long

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Post by lukeholder »

samstave wrote: post #3

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