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Once on a first day of school, a teacher asked us to answer some questions about ourselves. One of them was “how much TV do you watch in a day?” I think the teacher later remarked how low all of our estimates were relative to the national average.
Thanks to the magic of Overthinking, I can now answer a similar question with data.
| Month | Turn-ons | Turn-ons | Avg. | Avg. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01 | 134 | 4.3 | ||
| 2021-02 | 126 | 4.5 | ||
| 2021-03 | 139 | 4.4 | ||
| 2021-04 | 131 | 4.3 | ||
| 2021-05 | 127 | 4.0 | ||
| 2021-06 | 94 | 3.6 | ||
| 2021-07 | 96 | 3.3 | ||
| 2021-08 | 58 | 3.2 | ||
| 2021-09 | 88 | 3.0 | ||
| 2021-10 | 116 | 3.8 | ||
| 2021-11 | 108 | 3.6 | ||
| 2021-12 | 115 | 4.7 |
I did not turn on my TV very often in August. Perhaps I was on vacation.
Considering only the days that I was home, it looks like I turned my TV on fewer and fewer times a day from February to September. And then it must have started getting cold, and TV usage got way up.
| Month | Hours | Hours | Avg. | Avg. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01 | 224 | 7.2 | ||
| 2021-02 | 170 | 6.1 | ||
| 2021-03 | 178 | 5.7 | ||
| 2021-04 | 181 | 6.1 | ||
| 2021-05 | 167 | 5.4 | ||
| 2021-06 | 105 | 4.1 | ||
| 2021-07 | 122 | 4.2 | ||
| 2021-08 | 73 | 4.1 | ||
| 2021-09 | 145 | 5.0 | ||
| 2021-10 | 145 | 4.8 | ||
| 2021-11 | 144 | 4.8 | ||
| 2021-12 | 166 | 6.9 |
For totals, similar trends as for the previous, per-turn-on breakdown: I used my TV dramatically less in August.
The trend over average daily on durations is not as smooth as that for average daily turn-ons: it looks like, at times, I turn my TV on and off fewer times, but leave it on as long as usual
The first random snippet I found online tells me Canadians watch an average of about three hours of TV a day. My household average of 5 hours is way above that. Is that all of the K-pop that plays without me actively watching it? Or the fact that I’m comparing numbers that it makes no sense to compare?
The numbers are lower than I thought they would be: with the TV often on without being actively watched, to play music or slideshows, I expected the daily average to be closer to 8 hours.
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David Haguenauer
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