What do pies and doughnuts have in common? Well, we find them delicious, but they are fattening, take up a lot of space on your plate and in your stomach, have almost no nutritional value, and their principal behavioral impact is that they leave you craving even more non-nutritious food. And there’s high correlation between…
People over the age of 75 watch twice as much television as teenagers. On any given day, women are 30 percent more likely to do chores than men. The typical college student spends about an hour sleeping for every 25 minutes he spends studying.
Those are just three of the facts you can harvest from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest American Time Use Survey, which using polling data to illustrate a day in the life for Americans by age, gender, and education.