<story><title>In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average</title><url>https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaylolx</author><text>Just post the actual results: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.gallup.com&amp;#x2F;poll&amp;#x2F;284009&amp;#x2F;library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.gallup.com&amp;#x2F;poll&amp;#x2F;284009&amp;#x2F;library-visits-outpaced-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, the results don&amp;#x27;t show at all that &amp;quot;more Americans went to the library than to the movies&amp;quot; but rather that Americans went more to the library than to the movies (on average), which is  not very surprising given that only one of them is free.&lt;p&gt;In other words, if 100 Americans went to the movies once, and 1 American went to the library 101 times, the results would still rank libraries higher than movies despite  it being obviously not true that &amp;quot;more Americans went to the library than to the  movies.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>That link still isn’t to the actual results.  Here they are: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.gallup.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;poll&amp;#x2F;284015&amp;#x2F;200123LeisureActivities.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.gallup.com&amp;#x2F;file&amp;#x2F;poll&amp;#x2F;284015&amp;#x2F;200123LeisureActivi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your page points to this — good luck finding the hyperlink though!&lt;p&gt;Anyway, defined as “% of population that did the thing at least once”, movies are first, parks second, and libraries third.&lt;p&gt;Parks have seen a huge uptick in popularity.  The other two dropped off (libraries dropped off more than movies).&lt;p&gt;In terms of median visits per person (probably the better measurement), almost nothing changed.&lt;p&gt;Concerts went from 1 to 2 visits, libraries went from 3 to 2.  I’d guess those are explainable as statistical noise.</text></comment>
<story><title>In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average</title><url>https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwawaylolx</author><text>Just post the actual results: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.gallup.com&amp;#x2F;poll&amp;#x2F;284009&amp;#x2F;library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.gallup.com&amp;#x2F;poll&amp;#x2F;284009&amp;#x2F;library-visits-outpaced-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, the results don&amp;#x27;t show at all that &amp;quot;more Americans went to the library than to the movies&amp;quot; but rather that Americans went more to the library than to the movies (on average), which is  not very surprising given that only one of them is free.&lt;p&gt;In other words, if 100 Americans went to the movies once, and 1 American went to the library 101 times, the results would still rank libraries higher than movies despite  it being obviously not true that &amp;quot;more Americans went to the library than to the  movies.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>avip</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a whole class of people who practically live in libraries, which makes your example very realistic.</text></comment>