Computers, Not TV, Are To Blame For Increase in US Sitting Time, Study Says (cnn.com) 44
There's a key culprit in the battle against sitting. Time spent watching TV and videos has remained consistently high in the United States over the past 15 years, but time sitting at a computer has increased dramatically, new research finds. From a report: Leisure-time computer use increased between 4.8% and 38% for various age groups between 2001 and 2016, said Yin Cao, senior author of the new study and an assistant professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Overall, up to 43% of the US population used a computer for two or more hours a day and up to 25% used a computer for three or more hours each day in 2016. The result of these increases: Teens spent about 8.2 hours a day sitting while adults sat for 6.4 hours a day. Both groups saw a one-hour increase over the decade ending in 2016, Cao said.
How you count it is important. (Score:4, Insightful)
File this one under "duh."
If I were doing the study I would count time on YouTube, Hulu, and other streaming services as "TV time" and not "Computer Time." I think the numbers would look a lot different then.
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We've always been couch potatoes. It's just that now another device has started to gain traction against the Television in this regard.
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File this one under "duh."
If I were doing the study I would count time on YouTube, Hulu, and other streaming services as "TV time" and not "Computer Time." I think the numbers would look a lot different then.
THIS!
I'm sitting here looking at my kids, both born just before 2000 and I can tell you they do EVERYTHING on their computers/hand held devices, including watching videos when they are not playing games. They spend HOURS on Videos they find on U-Tube, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, and more. About the only things they get up for are meals, potty breaks. You should hear the howling when the high speed internet goes down... Shesh.
So you are right... Duh.. To which I add... "Thank you Captain Obvious"!
Smartphones on the other hand... (Score:1)
...have greatly increased shitting time.
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It's All TV (Score:2)
"Both" are to blame (Score:1)
Including all 3 minute sessions of fap time? (Score:1)
That's a lot of exercise when added up, isn't it?
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Gee, maybe that's why they studied "Leisure time computer use".
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It's more literal nonsense. Who actually knows how much time people spend watching TV or anything else. Ain't none of yalls beeswax anyway.
Exactly! The more I can figure out what your survey is trying to prove the more I try and throw the numbers. Asking about TV viewing, ohh let me see yeah about 5 minutes a day, mostly for the news you see. Computer time, oh god lets see, umm, at least 6.25 hours per day, yeah that sounds right. Physical activity, yeah sure, I walk at least 4 hours a day. Work time, I work 12 hour days mostly, with an hour lunch, so 13 hours. No, no, thank you for your time, hope your survey goes well.
I was actually
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Well no duh. Most of us aren't sitting 8 hours a day at work watching TV.
You only spend 8 hours at work a day? Sounds like a cushy job to me..
Define "computer" (Score:2)
Did this include phones and tablets?
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Did this include phones and tablets?
I had that same question also, then got to wondering if more people used phones standing up than sitting... I've seen a lot of people using phones just standing around.
It still probably adds a lot of time to sitting stats.
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You can lie down or stand while using your phone or tablet. I do that all the time.
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While I see some people texting and using mobile devices on the go, most of them will sit down for long periods of time, to correct that person who is wrong on the internet.
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Did this include phones and tablets?
That's just it... anecdotal data leans towards, mostly, millennials usually using a 'second screen' while the TV is on in the background.
Desktop and laptop sales have been on a continual, downward spiral for some time --probably because mobile can do the most remedial tasks, as well as ones desktop can't.
The dark side of the chair! (Score:2)
Surrender, Dorothy! Come over to the dark side of the chair!
Hey, if you can't beat 'em, you might as well join 'em.
My crazy solution approach of the last few weeks has been for the ultimate modular smart-chair with voodoo controller. If I'm going to spend so much of my time in the chair, it might as well be the ultimate chair!
This chair will remember various positions for what I'm doing. Special modes for working, reading, watching TV, listening to music, meditating, playing games, massage, other modes, and
no sitting here (Score:2)
since I have computers hooked up to all of my tvs, I tend to either be reclining or laying down :-) very seldom sit. also my tv and surfing is combined since I will usually watch tv in one tab while surfing in another
Not surprised (Score:2)