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Stop Smearing Goldfish: That Attention Span Statistic is Dubious

Sword and the Script

The statistic goes like this: A 2015 Microsoft study shows that the average consumer has an attention span of eight seconds down from 12 seconds back in 2000. That’s according to the BBC in a 2017 health section article titled, Busting the attention span myth. That goldfish statistic just won’t die. There are hundreds (thousands?)