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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.
Plus I suspect this is one of the things people will over estimate (in the same way that they'll probably underestimate watching TV).
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
How do Americans procreate?
It would be interesting to know how much of the "leisure" time is spent watching television. My guess is almost all.
There is a second graphic with a breakdown of "leisure" and "cooking, cleaning, etc"
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Apart from the obvious point that it is mind-bogglingly fantastic in itself (far more rewarding than all of this computer stuff) it had a profound effect on my work life balance.
Gone are stupid hours at work; I changed my work hours to fit nursery drop-off/collection times and even dropped to a 4 day week so I could spend quality time with my daughter rather than her going to nursery for an extra day. My productivity has improved (both subjectively and measured objectively during formal job reviews/appraisals) which I put down to being more focused during the limited hours I am at work to do my job as I know that I can't just do it later.
Outside hours, I can only access work (including email) if I bring my laptop home, and I now only do that for one weekend a month when I volunteer to be on call.
And now that she's nearly 3 I spend a lot of the time I would have been checking banal stuff on the Internet with play time and bonkers discussions with someone soaking up everything that's going on around her and developing her reasoning and understanding of it.
It's been long enough that I really have no idea what I used to do with all of my spare time before I became a father. Wouldn't change it for the world though, as I said, parenthood rocks.
P.S. It just keeps getting better and better too.
P.P.S. I reserve the right to change this when she becomes a mardy 11 year old.