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Stop Smearing Goldfish: That Attention Span Statistic is Dubious

Sword and the Script

All those references lead back to a 2015 report by the Consumer Insights team of Microsoft Canada, who surveyed 2,000 Canadians and also studied the brain activity of 112 people as they carried out various tasks. The piece goes on to interview a psychologist who “studies attention in drivers and witnesses to crime.”