Study: You'll wolf down 34GB of data today(news.cnet.com)
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Study: You'll wolf down 34GB of data today
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10412996-17.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody
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The way they're defining the amount of data you consume is pretty clumsy. I suppose playing a video game for an hour can be considered consuming n GBs, but it's not a terribly useful metric. What if I glance at a few very high resolution photos? Have I now doubled by data consumption? I guess technically I have, but it's not really useful.
I guess you should normalize for the amount of information that reaches the brain. That way you would get a useful and interesting metric.
That still wouldn't be all that meaningful because we get much more information out of texts than out of a photo or video of the same size.
That still wouldn't be all that meaningful because we get much more information out of texts than out of a photo or video of the same size.
The 34gb number seems a little BS in my opinion (for example, it mentions that 16GB of that value comes from video games), but the figure that surprised me most: "the average American consumes a whopping [...] 100,000 words of information per day"
Repeat (ish) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=985766