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Originally Posted by troutman
American households watch the box for over eight hours a day on average, twice as long as anyone else.
Not 8 hours per person, but 8 hours per household.
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Average household size is identical in Canada and US, 2.6 persons. So you still have 8 hours / 2.6 = 3.07 hours per person. Believable, but still a lot of hours.
Here are the household sizes for other countries, Japan is the real shocker here:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/pe...-of-households
Here is the obesity rate by country. If you were to convert the hours watched per household to per person and do a regression against obesity, I'd bet there'd be a fairly powerful correlation there:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/he...health-obesity
I'd love to see a study that does a regression of obesity against the 3 variables of hours of TV, vehicle miles driven, and number of fast food restaurants, to see which ends up being the biggest factor.