Tuesday, January 3, 2012

What Average Americans Are Doing: Sleeping, Eating, Working and Watching Television

This is how an average American over the age of 15 spends his or her 24 hours of daily existence (based on 2008 statistics). Playing with the different categories of Americans makes for a good fifteen minutes of entertainment and brain workout trying to figure out why, on average, at 8:50pm as many as 55% of the 65 or over are watching television while at as little as 8% of the 18-25 are socializing. 
Graph by Shan Carter, Amanda Cox, Kevin Quealy, Amy Schoenfeld found in The New York Times