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Checking email 4000 times a day
- November 20th, 2007
In a recent column at The Chronicle of Higher Education, the columnist writes
I’m a latecomer to it, in part because I have a very hit-or-miss interest in new technologies. (I still don’t own a cell phone, for example, though I check my e-mail 4,000 times a day.)
Now. There are 24 hours in a day. 1 440 minutes. 86 400 seconds. Thus, checking e-mail 4 000 times in a day would require you to check your inbox every 21.6 seconds. Day and night.
Either the author is innumerate or hyperactive.
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or hyperbolic
What? An english teacher resorting to hyperbole? NEVAH!
I see no problem with the number. The time to download all the mail for a day is (most likely) less than 1 minute. Checking the mail takes around 1 second.
So he could easily complete his task in slightly over an hour (1.11 hours) and then go on to do more productive things.
Perhaps he has a program that checks his mail for him (reporting if there is something new), and he considers that checking his mail?
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