How do people spend their time

The Economist is a haughty publication that I don’t read often. Most of the time, I feel like they put on airs. Whatever.

Recently, they published an article looking at how people spend their time. The article looked at people in the following countries:

1. France
2. Germany
3. Japan
4. Britain
5. United States
6. Turkey

They then looked at the time spent doing the following activities:

• Paid work and study
• Unpaid work
• Eating and sleeping
• Personal care
• Leisure
• Other

Instead of making it easy to discern the information in graphical format, they made it hard. They used similar colors and decided on the wrong graph type:

It makes my eyes hurt. Luckily, the folks at Geckoboard put together better graphs. Amazing how much a difference the right graph makes.

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