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Isn't this study just comparing Apples to Oranges? Doing nothing isn't doing nothing. If you're doing a manually intensive task and and sit down and do nothing
by tinalumfoil 5y ago
Isn't this study just comparing Apples to Oranges? Doing nothing isn't doing nothing. If you're doing a manually intensive task and and sit down and do nothing you might be (1) resting or (2) thinking about how to proceed.
> random individuals or groups of age 15 y and
above were selected for observation at random times in the day using tables
of random numbers. The anthropologist located the relevant individual and
recorded the activity in which they were engaging at the moment they
were spotted by the anthropologist, to avoid changes in behavior caused
by the researcher’s presence.
> These were con-
structed by the diary method, in which each subject precisely
recorded (in their own words) the activities they were engaged
in during each 5- to 10-min interval of a previous 24-h period
Come on now, these two methods are not producing comparable results.
- pdimitar 5y ago> If you're doing a manually intensive task and and sit down and do nothing you might be (1) resting or (2) thinking about how to proceed. No on your point 2. Anxiety about the future isn't a downtime, this has been all but proven with many modern studies. Stress kills, I don't think this is debatable nowadays. "Doing nothing" is a stress free time, whatever it is that your physical body is doing during the time e.g. people tending to their garden.
- rhn_mk1 5y agoIt's not about the definition, it's about the methodology of collecting the data.
- pdimitar 5y agoWhat about it? It's hard to gather 100% accurate data on an entire tribe of people. What are your reservations against the tweets?
- rhn_mk1 5y agoThe parent points out that the methodology is flawed: while you're right that sitting down may still be work, the way of recording activities does not take this into account.
- ZephyrBlu 5y agoSince when does planning ahead have anything to do with anxiety???