How Much Information Are We Exposed To Per Day.

One reason you need the ability to Pract The Facts is based on the amount of information you receive on a daily basis. Just how much? Well according to a report in 2009 by the University of San Diego it's a bunch. The estimate is that the average person process about 100,500 or 34 gigabytes of content a day. Of course you don't actually read all of this however this represents the amount of information that you are exposed to on any given day. The graph below shows the source of all this infomation.

Number of daily words consumedHMI Report/UC San Diego A graph from the report illustrating the dissection of words consumed each day.

So where does this exposure to this information come from?  Based on the research here is how it breaks down:

Computer ……. 2 hours per day

Television……..4.5 hours per day

Reading………..1.1 hour per day

Radio…………….5 hours per day

Telephone….1.13 hours per day

Other………….5 hours per day…pc, handhelds, signs, t-shirts etc.

Yikes! At Practical Learning we know it is important to know how to filter through this information and make it work for you. That's why we want you to know how to Pract The Facts.

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Comment by Practical Learning Online on February 27, 2014 at 6:52pm

Given the amount of information we receive from television it is important that we know how to Pract The Facts. In an article titled the Accuracy of Local TV News (http://www.newslab.org/research/accurate.htm) the authors did a study on the accuracy of news stories in Cleveland Ohio. What they found is 34% of the stories had omitted some information while 41% of the stories aired incomplete interviews. Using this as an example it is important that you do you own research on a story if it has an impact on your life.

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