<div>Ah, I think I can guess where "3700 hours per year consuming entertainment" comes from.</div>
<div>At the nominal 8 hours per day of sleep, there are 5,840 waking hours in a year. At the nominal 40 hour week for 50 weeks (2 weeks vacation, or one week and 5 holidays; just a thumbnail estimate) you get 2000 working hours. That leaves 3,840 hours that are neither asleep nor working, and can be categorized as "entertainment".
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<div>Sounds like arithmetic from a marketing person, saying that so many hours can be presumed available for entertainment.</div>
<div>Peter<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe Landman</b> <<a href="mailto:landman@scalableinformatics.com">landman@scalableinformatics.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Jim Lux wrote:<br><br>> The average person spends roughly 3700 hours per year consuming<br>> enetertainment, of which more than 3500 are some form of audio or video
<br>> (i.e. not reading)<br><br>I would love to hear where that data came from. Considering a work year<br>is about 2080 hours, this means we spend more time per week being<br>entertained, than working.<br><br>Moreover, there are 8760 hours (give or take) in a year. 3700 hours
<br>represents 42% of that.<br><br>Needless to say, I am ... ah ... skeptical ... about those numbers (the<br>3700).<br><br>><br>> Going to the theater and seeing a movie is a very tiny fraction of this<br>> (on average), but still accounts for about $10B per year in the US, and
<br>> perhaps $25B world wide (2004 numbers) and this does not include "adult"<br>> entertainment.<br><br>Maybe listening to the radio while driving your car counts. Maybe all<br>the annoying little ad-blurbs on pages count. I dunno.
<br><br>3700 hours? Unlikely at best.<br><br><br>--<br><br>Joseph Landman, Ph.D<br>Founder and CEO<br>Scalable Informatics LLC,<br>email: <a href="mailto:landman@scalableinformatics.com">landman@scalableinformatics.com</a>
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