Stat house
July 2004

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Age at which Mozart composed his first symphony	9 years
Cumulative time the average American will have spent watching TV, by the age of 65	9 years
Percentage of Americans who can name three Supreme Court Justices	17
Percentage of Americans who can name The Three Stooges	59
Hours per year the average American youth spends in school	900
Hours per year the average American youth watches TV	1,500
Number of people in the world who had a conventional telephone line in 2002	1.10 billion
Number who had a cell phone by then	1.14 billion
Percentage of his or her “media time” spent on TV or radio by the average American, age 12 to 64	77
Percentage of his media time spent on TV or radio by the average American boy, age 12 to 17	62
Percentage of his or her media time the average American (age 12 to 64) spends on electronic media (TV, radio, Internet, and video games)	93
Percentage he or she spends on print media (newspapers and magazines)	7

Statistics reported by the Worldwatch Institute

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