Alan Dix Snip!t: The End of Reflection

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If the data is any indication, most of us use our phones more than we think: Participants estimated an average of 37 uses throughout the day (anything that turns on the screen, from hitting snooze to making a call), but the actual number was around 85. The slight majority took less than 30 seconds. (Participants also underestimated duration of use by about an hour — the real total was 5.05 hours — which included phone calls and listening to music when the screen was off.)

If you are awake for 16 hours, turning on or checking your phone 85 times means doing so about once every 11 minutes (and doesn’t account for internet use on a computer), and 5.05 hours is over 30 percent of the day. What might be the effect on reflection of this compulsive behavior?

HTML	<div class="story-body-supplemental"><div class="story-body"><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="480" data-total-count="2651">If the data is any indication, most of us use our phones more than we think: Participants estimated an average of 37 uses throughout the day (anything that turns on the screen, from hitting snooze to making a call), but the actual number was around 85. The slight majority took less than 30 seconds. (Participants also underestimated duration of use by about an hour — the real total was 5.05 hours — which included phone calls and listening to music when the screen was off.)</p> <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-2">Continue reading the main story</a> </div><!-- close story-body --> <div data-post-height="0" data-last-item-height="945" data-minimum="400" data-remaining="0" data-max-items="0" data-pre-height="0" data-mega-ad-adjacency="true" style="" class="supplemental first" id="supplemental-1"> </div><!-- close supplemental --> </div><!-- close story-body-supplemental --> <div class="story-interrupter" id="story-continues-2"> <div style="width: 959px; margin-left: -127px; display: none;" id="MegaAd" class="ad mega-ad nocontent robots-nocontent hidden"> <div class="accessibility-ad-header visually-hidden"> <p>Advertisement</p> </div> <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-3">Continue reading the main story</a> <div class="mega-ad-creative"></div> <div style="border: 0pt none;" id="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7__container__"><iframe src="javascript:"<html><body style='background:transparent'></body></html>"" style="border: 0px none; vertical-align: bottom;" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" name="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7" title="3rd party ad content" id="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7" frameborder="0" height="300" width="1605"></iframe></div><iframe src="javascript:"<html><body style='background:transparent'></body></html>"" style="border: 0px none; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: hidden; display: none;" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" name="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7__hidden__" title="" id="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7__hidden__" frameborder="0" height="0" width="0"></iframe></div> </div> <div class="story-body-supplemental"> <div class="story-body"> <p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="286" data-total-count="2937" id="story-continues-3">If you are awake for 16 hours, turning on or checking your phone 85 times means doing so about once every 11 minutes (and doesn’t account for internet use on a computer), and 5.05 hours is over 30 percent of the day. What might be the effect on reflection of this compulsive behavior?</p></div></div>

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<div class="story-body-supplemental"><div class="story-body"><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="480" data-total-count="2651">If the data is any indication, most of us use our phones more than we think: Participants estimated an average of 37 uses throughout the day (anything that turns on the screen, from hitting snooze to making a call), but the actual number was around 85. The slight majority took less than 30 seconds. (Participants also underestimated duration of use by about an hour — the real total was 5.05 hours — which included phone calls and listening to music when the screen was off.)</p> <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-2">Continue reading the main story</a> </div> <div data-post-height="0" data-last-item-height="945" data-minimum="400" data-remaining="0" data-max-items="0" data-pre-height="0" data-mega-ad-adjacency="true" style="" class="supplemental first" id="supplemental-1"> </div> </div> <div class="story-interrupter" id="story-continues-2"> <div style="width: 959px; margin-left: -127px; display: none;" id="MegaAd" class="ad mega-ad nocontent robots-nocontent hidden"> <div class="accessibility-ad-header visually-hidden"> <p>Advertisement</p> </div> <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-3">Continue reading the main story</a> <div class="mega-ad-creative"></div> <div style="border: 0pt none;" id="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7__container__"><iframe src="javascript:"<html><body style='background:transparent'></body></html>"" style="border: 0px none; vertical-align: bottom;" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" name="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7" title="3rd party ad content" id="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7" frameborder="0" height="300" width="1605"></iframe></div><iframe src="javascript:"<html><body style='background:transparent'></body></html>"" style="border: 0px none; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: hidden; display: none;" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" name="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7__hidden__" title="" id="google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/fashion_7__hidden__" frameborder="0" height="0" width="0"></iframe></div> </div> <div class="story-body-supplemental"> <div class="story-body"> <p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="286" data-total-count="2937" id="story-continues-3">If you are awake for 16 hours, turning on or checking your phone 85 times means doing so about once every 11 minutes (and doesn’t account for internet use on a computer), and 5.05 hours is over 30 percent of the day. What might be the effect on reflection of this compulsive behavior?</p></div></div>

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