How We Spend Time

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According to researchers in Germany, we spend on average 24 years of our life sleeping, and 7 years at our jobs. The time we spend eating is 5 years. Education is only 1 year and 10 months. 9 months is spent commuting. 4 months of our lives playing computer games (though I suspect that given the amount of time I spent on MMOGs and what I do for a living, I have spent far more time playing computer games than the average person at the cost of sleeping -- but that's okay -- after all, who's going to miss a month here or there when there's 24 years to account for?


Of course, another study has found that
Lack of Sleep Affects Doctors Like Alcohol Does.

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those numbers don't make sense. that's weird number cookery. you can't take straight averages of people without indicating demographics or else those numbers would make no sense and loose value.

I agree. Their methodology sounds suspect -- taking surveys of people and asking them how long they spend doing x is not going to give realistic results.

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