The Scientific TV Study Poll

[Tick]

My theory is the younger the person, the less TV they watch. I think the amount increases as life becomes more domesticated.
Reply with your age and answer if you are so inclined.

[Perpetual Change]

7-9 sounds about right, but I sleep with the tube on. So really it's like 3-4.

[yorost]

0-1, I guess. My wife watches quite a bit more, so I end up 'seeing' a lot of shows in the background. I'm rarely paying close attention to them, though. Sports are the one thing that ups my viewing time, but that's not even an every week thing during seasons, since I only watch out of market teams and don't have cable.

[DebraKadabra]

5-7 hours sounds about right for shows being in season, other than that it's either 0-1 or 1-2. (age 42)

Edit:  Aw, shoot - forgot to factor in football season.

[jingle.boy]

Not including sports ... 7-9 seems legit.  A few of the regular shows we watch are family oriented, and I likely wouldn't be watching them if not for the kids and it being family time.

Hockey playoffs, golf majors, the odd regular season football game, and football playoffs all skew that though.

41 here.

[jasc15]

I guessed 12-15.  I watch TV maybe 2-3 hours a day during the week (more on Wednesdays when NOVA is on for 2 hours on PBS).  Weekends are variable; sometimes I don't watch any TV at all and sometimes its on most of the day while I'm futzing around with other things.  I wouldn't be surprised if I am underestimating my TV watching, though.  Not having cable helps a lot.  Any time I visit my parents who do have cable, I realize that I'm not missing out on anything.

[jasc15]

double post.

Wasn't there an option to delete posts at one time??

[gmillerdrake]

7-9 hours, primarily recorded shows. And it's usually in chunks....late Friday and Saturday nights after the husbandry and parental duties are over....I'll Veg out those two nights.

I'm 37, like long walks on the beach and enjoy light hearted comedies.

[Tick]

I went 20 to 25. For me its about 21 a week. I watch about 3 hours a day between morning news and evening sports.
This number is less in Summer than Winter but I watch more TV than I should in general.

When I was in my early 20's I didn't really watch TV at all. Maybe 5 hours a week tops.

[kirksnosehair]

Even though I'm fairly "domesticated" (married almost 13 years) I don't watch a lot of TV.  I just don't have the time.  I get up at 3:30am to be at the gym by 4:30am.  I am at the gym until 6:45am and then I go to work.  I usually work until about 5pm.  I get home at 5:45pm and practice piano or work on music projects until my wife gets home, usually by about 7:00pm.   Then we sometimes watch an hour to maybe 90 minutes (max) of television, and even that isn't really "television" per se, since we mostly watch rented DVDs from Netflix.  (although these are usually programs that originally aired on TV, I hate commercials, so watching them via Netflix is vastly superior to watching them when the air)


Wednesday nights I don't watch any TV at all because of band rehearsals being from 7:00pm to 10:30pm, but weekends we watch about maybe 2 hours on Sunday.


My entire week probably consists of a total of 7 or 8 hours at most.

[Phoenix87x]

From age 5 to about age 18, I watched around 8-10 hours a day of Television. Unfortunately I was kind of raised by it.

At age 25, I maybe watch 1 hour a week at most. With the exception of a show here of there, like Walking dead for instance, I have completely abandoned watching Television. There is almost nothing I have any desire to watch, and I feel physically nauseous in the presence of any type of reality TV, which sadly saturates the airwaves. Ultimately, I would rather make up for all the years I wasted in front of one by being out doing things.

[Podaar]

52 years old. 7-9 hours per week is what I answered but on second thought, once the current show season ends it will probably drop to just a few hours per week until the fall when football starts up. Mrs. Podaar and I rarely watch TV during the summer months. Shes... well, younger than me. 

[Tick]

and obviously watching NetFlix and other such things counts as time watching TV.

[Tick]

Even though I'm fairly "domesticated" (married almost 13 years) I don't watch a lot of TV.  I just don't have the time.  I get up at 3:30am to be at the gym by 4:30am.  I am at the gym until 6:45am and then I go to work.  I usually work until about 5pm.  I get home at 5:45pm and practice piano or work on music projects until my wife gets home, usually by about 7:00pm.   Then we sometimes watch an hour to maybe 90 minutes (max) of television, and even that isn't really "television" per se, since we mostly watch rented DVDs from Netflix.  (although these are usually programs that originally aired on TV, I hate commercials, so watching them via Netflix is vastly superior to watching them when the air)


Wednesday nights I don't watch any TV at all because of band rehearsals being from 7:00pm to 10:30pm, but weekends we watch about maybe 2 hours on Sunday.


My entire week probably consists of a total of 7 or 8 hours at most.

I kind of forgot my band practice night. Thursdays is mine and strangely mine is from 7 to 10:30 as well!

[Ħ]

2-5 hours for my favorite shows.

[jsem]

Don't own a TV. I stream stuff.

[PuffyPat]

9-12. Mostly baseball games.

[Tick]

I will say this though. While I will generally watch up to 20 hours a week between news, sports, and my shows, I don't play any video games at all. So that occupy s none of my time. See...this poll has me feeling guilty about watching too much TV.

[ColdFireYYZ]

About 1-2, occasionally up to 3 or 4. This time is spent streaming/watching TV shows on DVD though, as my family cancelled out satellite subscription due to it being a complete rip-off for the minimal amount of time we watched it.

Edit: I'm 17.

[j]

Basically the only thing I watch on TV is sports, 99% of which consists of football and basketball.  Don't have time to watch much, I would guess 7-9 hours a week lately, just because the NBA playoffs are on right now and my schedule happens to be accommodating my viewing of them in the evenings.

I'm 27 years young.

-J

[senecadawg2]

About 5-7 on average, I'd guess. Most of that comes from sports. I'm 18.

[BlobVanDam]

I chose 2-5. Most of the shows I watch aren't on TV. I never watch TV just for the sake of it to pass time, I only watch something if it's a show that's good enough to go out of my way to watch.
My dad on the other hand, will watch whatever happens to be on for lack of anything better to do.

[Lucien]

16, 5-7

[Bolsters]

I voted over 25 hours, and I'm 29. Though I wouldn't say I do that every week, just most weeks. My result is a little skewed though, because I'm an insomniac.

[ColdFireYYZ]

I never watch TV just for the sake of it to pass time, I only watch something if it's a show that's good enough to go out of my way to watch.

I'm the same way.

I just don't get how anyone can spend hours a day watching TV. I spent a week with my grandfather a few summers ago and I couldn't believe how much TV he and his wife watched. First thing in the morning it was Good Morning America. Then it was talk shows, game shows, court shows, Ice Road truckers, sitcom re-runs, America's Got Talent, news etc for the rest of the day.

[Sigz]

Is this counting watching TV shows online? I don't have a TV, just my computer.

But with that, it's probably about 3-4 hours a week between Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, then some random netflix.

[Tick]

Is this counting watching TV shows online? I don't have a TV, just my computer.

But with that, it's probably about 3-4 hours a week between Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, then some random netflix.

yes, your computer counts.

[Scorpion]

18, and I rarely, if ever watch TV, so 0-1 hour it is.

[Sketchy]

23 and don't have a telly, and largely don't really bother watching things (exceptions being David Attenborough prorammes, Michael Palin programmes and the current series of Doctor Who.) Thus 0-1 hours.