A newly published report from the Global Information Industry Center of UC San Diego offers a few interesting statistics:
- In 2008, Americans were exposed to 100,500 words/day, nearly 2½ times more than in 1980.1
- Television remained America’s leading source of information exposure.
1Americans were exposed to approximately 4,500 trillion words in 1980 versus 10,845 trillion (100,500 words/day per person) in 2008.
