Mobile Phone Usage Insights?
May 20, 2018
I read “Students Spend Four to Seven Hours on Phones, Check Them 150 Times a Day, Study Finds.” These types of reports interest me. “Students” refers to a sample drawn from 20 “central universities” (whatever that means) and 200 students. How were these “students” lured into interviews? Self selection, money, or the joy of having a chance to share their behaviors. These are behaviors, I wish to point out, already known to certain organizations monitoring mobile phone usage.
I highlighted several pieces of “real” data which I found interesting:
- The sample comes from India. How closely to these behavior patterns match the actions of a similar sample in Italy or the United States?
- The study included the word “hedonism.” That’s a great word and strikes me as one design
- 26 percent of those in the sample “use smartphones to make calls”
- 63 percent use a smartphone for four to seven hours each day
The point I found interesting, assuming that it is statistically valid, is that almost one fourth of those in the sample use a smartphone more than eight hours per day.
Perhaps a career as an eye doctor is one to consider?
Stephen E Arnold, May 20, 2018
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