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> For comparison more people in the US watched an football game than read a book for fun last year. Not sure this is the case. Pew pegs the percentage of Ameri
by jdminhbg 12y ago
> For comparison more people in the US watched an football game than read a book for fun last year.
Not sure this is the case. Pew pegs the percentage of Americans who read a book last year at 77% [http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-decline-of-the-american-book-lover/283222/ http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-decl...], and the Super Bowl drew 111 million viewers [http://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-bowl-2014-ratings-set-new-record/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-bowl-2014-ratings-set-new-...]. I'd guess the number of people who watched a football game but not the Super Bowl last year isn't totally insignificant, but probably not huge (and I'm skeptical that the ratings aren't maybe a little inflated).
- Retric 12y agoYour assuming everyone who read a book did so for fun. Scroll down on your first link and the percentage is 55% of adults and 52% 18-24 year olds. Compared to 64% of americans watching an NFL game. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/14/no-surprise-64-americans-watch-nfl-football-73-of-men-55-of-women/107308/ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/14/no-surprise-64-a... Further, football goes beyond the supper bowl and beyond the NFL. Including collage, high school etc, and an estimated 200+ million people watched at least one football game last year.