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Or you can use common sense and interpret it as meaning that they spend two hours watching TV as opposed to 48 minutes being read to. No point in criticizing a usage based on one's willful misunderstanding of it.
Well, *my common sense tells me this means kids spend less time, i.e., 48 minutes, watching TV when they are also (at a different) time being read to.
The sentence may not be well written but it doesn't stand this interpretation, surely? That would require the sentence to have included another word:
They average about two hours of screen time, compared with 48 minutes when also being read to.
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