5 Aug
2005
5 Aug
'05
8:44 a.m.
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:11 -0400, John Allain wrote:
This thought crossed my mind many moons ago offline,
here it is on-list.
If the amount of lost time spent reading offtopic and other
time wasting threads is were counted up
assume
800 readers, 100 full-time, 700 part time
80+ posts a day, 30,000 a year
1 second to read a header, 10 seconds to skim a post
1/3 of posts off-topic and other
then time wasted is
100 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 10 / 3,600 ~= 2,800
+700 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 1 / 3,600 ~= 1,900
= 4,700 = 2 1/3 man-Years wasted
Don't we all just look at the subject line and ditch messages that
aren't of interest to us (OT or just not something that suits our
individual tastes)?
Plus, didn't you miss out days in the above calculation? Even assuming
the ten second part is correct, isn't it:
100 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 10 / 3,600 ~= 2,800 hours
+700 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 1 / 3,600 ~= 1,900 hours
= 4,700 hours = 196 man-days (approx 1/2 man-year)
I think that's an order of magnitude less than time spent in the
bathroom... :-)
cheers
Jules