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    Jane McGonigal‏Verified account @avantgame 14 May 2015

    The average American teenager spends 4 minutes a day reading a book for fun and 1 hour playing video games... http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm …

    3:13 PM - 14 May 2015
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      2. Dee‏ @WhoHasPizza 18 May 2015
        Replying to @avantgame

        @avantgame What about the average adult? Do you know how much time the average American adult spends reading daily?

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      3. Jane McGonigal‏Verified account @avantgame 18 May 2015
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        @PushForGreat that link will tell you :)

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      4. Dee‏ @WhoHasPizza 18 May 2015
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        @avantgame I read it. It only mentioned weekend reading habits of seniors and teens, unless I missed something...

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      1. Brave Newbies‏ @BraveNewbiesOrg 14 May 2015
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        @avantgame in #eveonline most of the game is reading, basic arithmetic(addition, subtraction, division, multiplication) & calculus for hours

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      1. Deborah Boschert‏ @dhbosch 14 May 2015
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        @avantgame @Hebron_HS has reading time built into the day and books free for the taking at book nooks thru out the school. @hebronreads

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      1. Mohammad K. Yaseen‏ @ms8277 14 May 2015
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        @avantgame Make it very enjoyable, interesting and motivational to learn interactively. And indeed it's an efficient way to learn

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      2. Dee‏ @WhoHasPizza 18 May 2015
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        @avantgame Ah, leisure... I'd love to see a large scale survey. I've read the numbers are pretty bad with small scale surveys.

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      3. Dee‏ @WhoHasPizza 18 May 2015
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        @avantgame ~4 hours of TV a day, less than a few books a year...

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      1. Sicco Maathuis‏ @BrightlingSicco 15 May 2015
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        RT @avantgame: Average American teenager spends 4 mins a day reading a book for fun and 1 hr playing video #games... http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm …

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      1. nutella is my guac‏ @brainyisnewsexy 14 May 2015
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        @avantgame Appears my teen is an over-achiever. She's playing far more than an hour a day.

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      1. ¡Carletto!‏ @palanysamy 14 May 2015
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        @avantgame People read much more now than ever, just not from paper.

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      1. Mohammad K. Yaseen‏ @ms8277 14 May 2015
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        @avantgame Of course with Assassin's Creed I mean the historical knowledge.

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      1. Mohammad K. Yaseen‏ @ms8277 14 May 2015
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        @avantgame The nice thing that some games provided rich cultural content in the form of an interesting game, such as Assassins Creed

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      1. Aras BOZKURT‏ @arasbozkurt 14 May 2015
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        @avantgame an average teenager an adult all around the world! Playing #crysis now :)

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