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Kinda off-topic, but I'm surprised sex wasn't included.

• hugs 17y ago
  It is. See the description for "Personal Care". They say the average for sex is 54 seconds. :-)
  • gjm11 17y ago
    Nice example of the distinction between different kinds of average (see the "lying with statistics" thread). This is presumably the mean rather than (say) the median. Perhaps, e.g., 1/3 of the population they sampled is in a reasonably healthy sexual relationship and not grossly hampered by extreme old age, ill healthy, etc., in which case the average for that portion of the population is about 3 minutes per day, which could mean e.g. once a week for 20 minutes. Then, of course, some respondents might be reluctant to report that they had sex (pushing the average down) or might tend to exaggerate how long they spent at it (pushing the average up) or something. The one thing the figure almost certainly doesn't mean is that a typical sex act reported in the survey took 54 seconds. Although, depending on how you define your terms, many of them might be very quick...
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• gjm11 17y ago
  (I don't see why it's off-topic.) Presumably categorized as "other leisure" or (less likely) "socializing". ... Nope, wrong, it's actually categorized as "personal care". At least, that's the top-level category it goes in in the survey itself, but whoever created the NYT graphic may have organized things differently. (In fact, they definitely did, since they have a "computer use" category and that is certainly not a top-level category in the ATUS.)
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