Although about a hundred million Americans suffer from chronic pain, according to a recent report by the Institute of Medicine, medical schools devote, on average, only nine hours to pain, and only about four thousand physicians are board-certified as pain specialists.
Still, Americans 15 or older (including students and retirees) devote, on average, almost as much time to unpaid work as they do to paid work (about 23 hours a week on household activities, purchasing goods and services, caring for and helping others, and volunteering, compared with about 25 hours a week on paid work and related activities, according to data from the 2010 American Time Use Survey).
One of the most active Big Brother subreddit moderators, /u/diary_room, estimates that they devote on average 40 hours per week to moderating the forum and participating in online discussion each week.
Whereas 50% of faculty from liberal arts colleges feel they spend enough time teaching science process skills and devote, on average, 43% of their time to teaching the process of science, only 23% of the community college faculty feel they spend enough time teaching skills and devote on average only 24% of their class time to development of science skills.
Organizations devoted an average of 47 (± 72) working days on '10,000 Steps'.
New players and returning players devoted an average of 12.5 min and 29.7 min per visit, respectively.
The most time consuming intervention was toilet of patient's whole body, for the performance of which each time the nurses devoted 784,94 sec per one patient on average.
The total amount of time devoted to nutrition was on average 57, 56, 48, and 28 hours in the medical, nursing, midwifery, and nursing assistant programs, respectively.
Understandably concerned about officer safety, police academies spend far more time on firearms training, devoting an average of 60 hours to it, than on mediation and conflict management, which receive only eight hours.
They behave worst in Japan, where a government survey found that husbands in dual-income families on average devote eight minutes a day to housework.
