• TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
    441·
    9 months ago

    I love how it sais that South Africa has the highest and Egypt has the lowest screen time of Africa, while they are the only countries in Agrica with Data.

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    361·
    9 months ago

    I mean, 8 hours just for work. If you count all screens I probably spend like 14 hours a day starring “on screens”.

    • xtr0n
      241·
      9 months ago

      China does have a lot of agricultural and manufacturing workers who aren’t on computers all day. And they have some pretty poor rural areas. But I’m calling bullshit on Japan’s numbers. Tokyo looks like Blade Runner at night but and the office culture is famous for long hours but no one is looking at screens? Get the fuck outta here.

      • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        Same with the numbers of Western Europe. Those definitely do not include office hours work screen time, I’m pretty sure they only measured leisure time screen time and excluded tv watching

      • BakerBagel@midwest.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        Go to any major city in China and you will see thousands of people on their scooters, smoking cigarettes and playing mobile games. Chinese people are absolutely glued to their phones.

    • funkless_eck
      71·
      9 months ago

      And North and South America is bisexual.

      Europe eats hot chip and charge they phone.

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
    211·
    9 months ago

    Japan is only 3:45 hours? How? Are those salarymen working 12hrs per day in front of their computers not counted? Or is it offset by kids not allowed to use smartphones at school?

    • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
      11·
      9 months ago

      I think japan still uses a lot of paper in the administrative side of things, that could bring it down too. Still seems like a data collection issue based on how much of an outlier it is.

  • kraftpudding@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 months ago

    I don’t think this these numbers include work at all. Because none of the articles the graphic is based on mention work at all, nor do their sources it seems. And also, the sources talk about “time spent connected to the internet”, so streaming would count, but not TV, which is also a screen. So average real screen time could be even higher.

    • library_napper@monyet.cc
      2·
      9 months ago

      Yeah I dont understand this. Only thing I can think is that news is more TV in the north and more phone based on south?

  • library_napper@monyet.cc
    5·
    9 months ago

    Wtf how is the high end 9 hours? That’s just my time at work. It doesn’t even include the commute, reading the news, and talking with friends.

      • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        One also wonders how the questions asked were phrased. And how they interpreted responses of, “E, chotto . . .” and other “telling the truth would be rude” circumlocutions.

        • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yes, this is also true. I had a job in a Tokyo suburb going house to house surveying households (read: stay at home wives and retirees) and my god, getting them to answer questions face-to-face was like pulling teeth.

          Once we anonymized the surveys however, damn were the honest lol. Especially about the foreigner (me 😂)

  • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    51·
    9 months ago

    I think people that see these numbers as low does not realize that tons of people don’t work in front of a screen full-time, and the average would include children and the elderly