The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.