{"id":6617,"date":"2021-03-15T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2021-03-15T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:25:41","slug":"graph-blog-post-3-15-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/03\/15\/graph-blog-post-3-15-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph\/Blog Post 3\/15\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/tus\/charts\/chart9.jpg\" alt=\"Leisure time on an average day\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/tus\/charts\/leisure.htm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The chart above displays what individuals in the United States, over the age of 15 years old, spend on each activity during their leisure time. According to this chart, individuals appear to spend the most time watching TV, followed by socializing and communicating, etc, and all together comes to just under 5 hours of leisure time per day. At first glance, this chart appears to be acceptable; however, there appears to be under the surface a number of potential issues with this data, issues that are described by Huff in his &#8220;How to Lie with Statistics&#8221;. One of the biggest issues is that this data was collected in a 2015 survey. With this survey method used, one potential issue is the idea that the sample who responded to the survey was a bad, or not representative, sample. Perhaps the individuals who responded to the survey lied about the amount of time they spent on each leisure activity, whether it be to fit what they think is a normal amount, or for some other reason. This potential for dishonesty calls into question the validity of this data, for it is possible that respondents\u00a0did not respond truthfully, and thus the data is skewed from what reality is. Additionally, another issue that could arise is the issue of who responded to the survey. It is more likely than not that those of a higher socioeconomic status would respond to this survey, for individuals of lower socioeconomic status may not have as much time to respond, and could also be self-conscious if they do not have much or any leisure time. On the other hand, those of the higher socioeconomic status most likely have more leisure time, and may even be inclined to lie to indicate that they have more than they actually do. Either way, as Huff mentions in his writing, there is the potential for this survey to be biased towards people with more money and more time. There is the potential for this survey to be biased in a number of ways, particularly\u00a0with a focus on the potential for dishonesty, and for a nonrepresentative sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/tus\/charts\/leisure.htm &nbsp; The chart above displays what individuals in the United States, over the age of 15 years old, spend on each activity during their leisure time. According to this chart, individuals appear to spend the most time watching TV, followed by socializing and communicating, etc, and all together comes to just under 5 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}