[lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jan 30 17:51:49 PST 2011


On Jan 30, 2011, at 7:18 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:


> You need leisure time to read.

http://bls.gov/news.release/atus.htm

The average American has 5.25 hours of leisure a day - somewhat more for men, somewhat less for women. That is not a trivial amount of time. More than half that time is spent watching TV. American spend an average of 1/2-3/4 an hour a day reading (men the low end, women the high). Those with kids spend an average of .04 hours a day - that's 2.4 minutes - reading to them.

It's a commonplace that Americans are too overworked and stressed to do much of anything, but there's not much data to support that. Farmers and workers in the late 19th century studied monetary theory, for god's sake.

Doug



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