Matters of Scale - Brain Drain
Age at which Mozart composed his first symphony | 9 years |
Cumulative time the average American will have spent watching TV, by the age of 65 | 9 years |
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Percentage of Americans who can name three Supreme Court Justices | 17 |
Percentage of Americans who can name The Three Stooges | 59 |
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Hours per year the average American youth spends in school | 900 |
Hours per year the average American youth watches TV | 1,500 |
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Number of people in the world who had a conventional telephone line in 2002 | 1.10 billion |
Number who had a cell phone by then | 1.14 billion |
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Percentage of his or her "media time" spent on TV or radio by the average American, age 12 to 64 | 77 |
Percentage of his media time spent on TV or radio by the average American boy, age 12 to 17 | 62 |
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Percentage of his or her media time the average American (age 12 to 64) spends on electronic media (TV, radio, Internet, and video games) | 93 |
Percentage he or she spends on print media (newspapers and magazines) | 7 |
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Sources: Time watching TV: A.C. Nielson Co.; Percentages of time spent on various media:
Knowledge Networks/SRI Multi-Media Mentor, 2003; Hours in school vs. watching TV:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.); Conventional vs. cell phone access: Worldwatch Institute,
State of the World 2004.