New Study Shows Youth Plugged In Most of the Day

An anonymous reader writes "The amount of time youngsters are spending on the web has ballooned to exceed the average adult's full working week, according to a new study. A few years ago, the same researchers thought that teens and tweens were consuming about as much media as possible in the hours available. But now they've have found a way to pack in even more. Young people now devote an average of seven hours and 38 minutes to daily media use, or about 53 hours a week according to Kaiser Family Foundation findings released today."

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For those too lazy

[Misanthrope]

To click through and download the PDF
TV 4:29
Music/Audio 2:31
Computer 1:29
Video Games 1:13
Print :38
Movies :25

With a 29% multitasking cut, so from 10:45 total it comes down to 7:38

Not really sure this is all that surprising to me, it's hard for me to feel alarmed over the print and music portions of the time.

Re:For those too lazy

[Misanthrope]

" The report is based on a survey conducted between October 2008 and May 2009 among a nationally representative sample of 2,002 3rd-12th grade students ages 8-18, including a self-selected subsample of 702 respondents who completed seven-day media use diaries, which were used to calculate multitasking proportions."

It also is biased by the type of respondent who would complete a seven day media diary, wth kaiser.

Re:For those too lazy

[NekSnappa]

I think you mean Rip Van Winkle. He's the one who took a 20 year nap after pounding a few beers and bowling some 9 pin with ghosts.

Rumplestiltskin was a dwarf who spun gold from straw.

Re:Kids...

[thoughtspace]

Because language is one of the most powerful tools, spell-check is fallible, and you expand your vocabulary in the process.

Spent my life in cold-hard research and development. Grammar and spelling are used much more than any mathematical formulae (Slashdot spell-check does not catch that one!). The higher the 'level' you go, the more abstract concepts become. Hence, the more the language semantics matter.

Not only that, it is much more professional when you present documents with the correct spelling. You might not care; but the person who notices might be important to your future.

Re:Kids...

[Anonymous Coward]

Your use of formulae is both incorrect, and pedantic.

Consider the following two sentences:
1)"Bicycles and motorcycles are used more than any car."
2)"Bicycles and motorcycles are used more than any cars."

Clearly the former is grammatically superior.

Re:Your taxes at work

[JackieBrown]

Don't blame the children.
They are not the ones that decide to pay less on education and that ebonics or it's more recent equivalent is good enough.

We are paying more than we were 20 years ago yet children are doing worse in school.

The problem isn't with the money (maybe in some districts) but the way they teach kids now.

My daughter was not taught how to read using phonics, she was taught using "sight words." I asked the teacher she wasn't learning the multiplication table and the teacher said that it was not taught anymore because they prefered 'concepts.' As a result, my daughter does multiplication (not addition but multiplication!!!!) using her fingers. She reads well now due to the time I have spent with her but her writing is still terrible (but it looks pretty.)

Now I fully admit that I should have taken the time to have taught her myself instead of relying on the school system. But I do remember being taught these things when I went to school. And passing out a multiplication table or phonics sheet is not expensive.

Study shows: Youth at home, most of the day.

[Hurricane78]

News at 11.

Really, what’s the point of turning the computer off when at home?
That would mean no music, no movies, no quick search on wikipedia or something, no way of seeing if friends are at home.
If you do not prefer to be alone and bored, but don’t want or can’t to drive to your friends, then the choice is obvious.

Doesn’t mean one also is alone and actually sits in front of the thing.