I actually hope these are bogus, but I fear not. I know the number for TV watching was 7 hours/day 10 years ago, so that seems consistent.
We live in a sad time when you consider the following statistics:
§ Only 14 percent of adults with a grade-school education read literature in 2002.
§ 51 percent of the American population never reads a book over 400 pages after they complete their formal education.
§ 73 percent of all books in libraries are never checked out.
§ The average American watches 32 hours of TV every week.
§ The average American reads only eight hours (books, newspapers, magazines, Yellow Pages, etc.) every week.
§ The average American annually spends 10 times more on what he puts on his head than what he puts into his head.Consider the following:
§ If you read just one book per month for 12 months, you would be in the top 25 percentile of intellectuals in the world.
§ If you read just 15 minutes a day — every day, for one year — you can complete 20 books.As Benjamin Franklin said, “The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
Mackay’s Moral: Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
So what are you reading? Give me some ideas in comments of things I can try.