Americans Get Plenty of Sleep, Watch Lots of TV presents an amusing lesson on the meaning of statistics:
The average American spent 8.6 hours a day sleeping last year, only 3.7 hours working and had 5.1 leisure hours — half of which was spent watching television, a survey showed on Tuesday.The national study included everyone from working parents with almost no free time to retirees and teenagers — helping to explain why this ‘average’ day does not reflect anyone’s actual day