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Stop Smearing Goldfish: That Attention Span Statistic is Dubious

Sword and the Script

of articles and blog posts that start with this statistic. Maybe you heard a Harvard academic citing them on US radio. The piece goes on to interview a psychologist who “studies attention in drivers and witnesses to crime.” That’s a shorter attention span than a goldfish. There are hundreds (thousands?)