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Stop Smearing Goldfish: That Attention Span Statistic is Dubious

Sword and the Script

It’s the premise for a persuasive argument about why marketing needs to do a thing or two. 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. There are hundreds (thousands?)