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Stop Smearing Goldfish: That Attention Span Statistic is Dubious

Sword and the Script

The article reports: “You might have seen those stats in Time magazine , the Telegraph , the Guardian , USA Today , the New York Times or the National Post. For good measure, I searched Statistic Brain today and there’s no mention of the word “goldfish” on the website. And the evidence shows it’s probably false.