<p>Can someone help me find credible stats on the avg. number of hours people spend watching tv & playing games?</p>
<p>I need credible data that I can cite. Please provide the URL so that I can refer back to it. </p>
<p>Also, any other statistics on how computer games/usage, TV, or technology on how they affect our society negatively would be appreciated!</p>
<p>I'm doing a research paper on how today's tech is affecting our society in a negative way. Thanks!!</p>
<p>Even better, can someone please find stats that show how many people are addicted to technology in general? Should I just provide stats for a few tech devices (tv, comp, cell) to express urgency for this situation or what? Thanks for your help in advance!</p>
<p>Actually, for your topic, you would need more information than what you asked for in this post. You would also need to know the average hours of sleep of those people to complement it.</p>
<p>Just to give you an example -- I watch tv/play games for 3-4 hours each weekday, and around 12 hours in total on the weekends, yet have a (4+ gpa -- not trying to flaunt, just making a point), but I make up for all of that by sleeping at 1 to 2 am each day. Though the grades themselves would make it seem that technology has no negative impact, the hours of sleep does.</p>
<p>What about how many people are addicted to technology? I can't seem to find this anywhere. How can I create a sense of urgency that too many people are addicted to techology and spend too many hours each day using them?</p>
<p>there was just some story and study out about how video game addictions actually are real addictions. I don't know if that would help at all, but you could probably find it pretty easily.</p>
<p>any addiction is a "real" addiction.</p>
<p>what do you mean by "real"?</p>
<p>honestly, I can say I'm "addicted" to video games, but when I see shows like intervention with some whacked out gamer who barely blinks, I know that guy's ****ed. I'm perfectly fine (4.6 GPA, blah).</p>
<p>Well I'm using this article to back up my speech. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/cultureshock/fa2004/addicts.htm%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/cultureshock/fa2004/addicts.htm</a></p>